Desert sand is a very light and very weakly saturated reddish yellow color which corresponds specifically to the coloration of sand. It may also be regarded as a deep tone of beige.
Desert sand was used by General Motors, along with "rosewood", as a paint color for their early Cadillacs.
In 1998, desert sand was made into a Crayola crayon color.
Sand dune is a color that resembles that of a sand dune composed of dark-colored sand. The first recorded use of the term as a color name in English was in 1925.
Field drab is one of the twelve official camouflage colors of the United States Army.
Desert sand in human culture
Interior design
The tones of desert sand are called desert colors because they suggest the colors of the landscape of and of the design of the Native American cultures of the Southwestern United States. The desert colors are widely used (with both tones of sky blue or turquoise and tones of maroon to complement them) in Southwest Design.
Military
The colors desert sand, earth yellow, sand, and field drab are all on the list of the twelve standard camouflauge colors used by the United States Department of the Army.
Notes
↑After recording "wood brown" in his 1886 book, Robert Ridgway further refined the details of its color coordinates in his 1912 publication.
Color coordinates
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