Tawny (color) facts for kids

Kids Encyclopedia Facts

This box shows the color tawny.

Tawny is a brownish-orange color or brownish-yellow color.

Shades of brown

Auburn	Almond	Beaver	Bistre	Bole	Bronze	Brown	Brown sugar	Buff	Burgundy

Burnt sienna	Burnt umber	Camel	Caramel	Chamoisee	Chestnut	Chocolate	Citron	Cocoa Brown	Coffee

Copper	Cordovan	Coyote	Desert sand	Drab dark brown	Earth yellow	Ecru	Fallow	Fawn	Field drab

Fulvous	Golden brown	Goldenrod	Harvest gold	Khaki	Lion	Liver	Mahogany	Maroon	Ochre

Olive	Raw umber	Redwood	Rufous	Russet	Rust	Sand	Sandy brown	Satin sheen gold	Seal brown

Sepia	Sienna	Sinopia	Tan	Taupe	Tawny	Umber	Walnut brown	Wenge	Wheat

A typical sample is shown for each name; a range of color-variations is commonly associated with each color-name.

Shades of orange

Amber	Apricot	Atomic tangerine	Bittersweet	Buff	Burnt orange	Butterscotch	Caramel	Carrot orange	Champagne

Citron	Coral	Dark salmon	Deep carrot orange	ECE/SAE Amber	Flame	Fulvous	Gamboge	Gold	Gold (metallic)

Golden poppy	International orange	Jonquil	Lion	Mahogany	Mango	Marigold	Old gold	Orange	Orange (web)

Orange-red	Orange peel	Papaya whip	Peach	Peach-orange	Peach-yellow	Persian orange	Persimmon	Portland Orange	Princeton Orange

Pumpkin	Rust	Safety orange	Salmon	Satin sheen gold	Scarlet	Seashell	Sunglow	Sunset	Tangelo

Tangerine	Tawny	Tea rose	Tomato	UT Orange	Vermilion

A typical sample is shown for each name; a range of color-variations is commonly associated with each color-name.

Images for kids

The tawny owl (Strix aluco) gives an example of tawny used as an adjective in a name. Latin scientific names may use the adjective fulvus (or variations), meaning tawny or fulvous. An example is Cinnycerthia fulva, the binomial name of the fulvous wren.

All content from Kiddle encyclopedia articles (including the article images and facts) can be freely used under Attribution-ShareAlike license, unless stated otherwise. Cite this article:

Tawny (color) Facts for Kids. Kiddle Encyclopedia.