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| Gold (golden) | |
|---|---|
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| Common connotations | |
| First place in a competition (champion), wealth | |
 Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #FFD700 |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (255, 215, 0) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (51°, 100%, 100%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (87, 99, 69°) |
| Source | X11 |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Vivid yellow |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
Gold, also called golden, is a color tone resembling the gold chemical element.
The web color gold is sometimes referred to as golden to distinguish it from the color metallic gold. The use of gold as a color term in traditional usage is more often applied to the color "metallic gold" (shown below).
The first recorded use of golden as a color name in English was in 1300 to refer to the element gold. The word gold as a color name was first used in 1400 and in 1423 to refer to blond hair.[1]
Metallic gold, such as in paint, is often called goldtone or gold tone, or gold ground when describing a solid gold background. In heraldry, the French word or is used.[2] In model building, the color gold is different from brass. A shiny or metallic silvertone object can be painted with transparent yellow to obtain goldtone, something often done with Christmas decorations.
- ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 195
- ^ Friar, Stephen, ed. (1987). A New Dictionary of Heraldry. London: Alphabooks/A&C Black. p. 343. ISBN 0-906670-44-6.