Copper (color)

This article is about the color. For other uses, see Copper (disambiguation).

Copper is a reddish brown color that resembles the metal copper.

Copper
 
Crystallized copper metal
About these coordinates     Color coordinates
Hex triplet#B87333
sRGBB (r, g, b)(184, 115, 51)
HSV (h, s, v)(29°, 72%, 72%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(55, 70, 39°)
Source[1]/Maerz and Paul[1]
ISCC–NBS descriptorBrownish orange
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

The first recorded use of copper as a color name in English was in 1594.[2]

  1. ^ The color displayed in the color box above matches the color called copper in the 1930 book by Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill; the color copper is displayed on page 31 Plate 4, Color Sample I11.
  2. ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 193; Color Sample of Copper: Page 31 Plate 4 Color Sample I11