Bronze (color)

Bronze
 
About these coordinates     Color coordinates
Hex triplet#CD7F32
sRGBB (r, g, b)(205, 127, 50)
HSV (h, s, v)(30°, 76%, 80%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(60, 81, 39°)
Source[1]/Maerz and Paul[1]
ISCC–NBS descriptorStrong orange
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
Bronze statue of the Roman Emperor Augustus

Bronze is a metallic brown color which resembles the metal alloy bronze.

A bronze medal
A bronze medal

The first recorded use of bronze as a color name in English was in 1753.[2]

  1. ^ The colour displayed in the colour box above matches the colour called bronze, in the 1930 book by Maerz and Paul, A Dictionary of Color, New York: 1930 McGraw-Hill; the colour bronze is displayed on page 51, Plate 14, Colour Sample L9.
  2. ^ Maerz and Paul, A Dictionary of Color, New York: 1930 McGraw-Hill, p. 191; Colour Sample of Bronze: p. 51, Plate 14, Colour Sample L9