Khaki (color)

See also: Khaki (homonymy)

The khaki is a nuance of color Brun E drawing on the Jaune or the Vert. It is used for the Camouflage military uniforms.

The nuance presented opposite is only one option. In practice the khaki color is not given, because it is not a frank color but rather a whole of nuances ranging between the Vert, the Jaune and the maroon . In general one will say of an object or a clothing which it is khaki when its color can be interpreted as being a greenish beige, a greenish chestnut or a greenish yellow. In general the khaki one is a color of average intensity, unsaturated. The khaki one is regarded by the colourists as belonging to the chromatic field of the maroon . In art the assembly of several paintings gives a color commonly called " excrement of oie" , these colors are in fact of the nuances of khaki.

The khaki green (second example opposite) is what the painters and colourists commonly call the green " excrement of oie". It belongs to the chromatic Champ Vert. It is also a color used for the military camouflage (clothing, tents, material).

Contrary to appearances, the name of the color does not come from the homonymous fruit (the color of the Kaki fruit is vermilion) but from an Persan-Urdu word “khak” which means dust, the meaning adjective “khaki” dusty, cover of dust or coloured with ground.

Symbolism and use

the khaki color is associated with military clothing. By extension, the fashion frequently adopted it like color of town clothes. It should nevertheless be stressed that khaki large dressmakers recovers a chromatic Champ wider than the khaki soldier since even the greenish grey ones and dark greens can be called khaki.

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