Silver (color)

Silver
 
Common connotations
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About these coordinates     Color coordinates
Hex triplet#C0C0C0
sRGBB (r, g, b)(192, 192, 192)
HSV (h, s, v)(0°, 0%, 75%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(78, 0, 0°)
SourceHTML/CSS[1]
ISCC–NBS descriptorLight gray
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
A silver crystal

Silver or metallic gray is a color tone resembling gray that is a representation of the color of polished silver.

Silver ingot
Silver ingot

The visual sensation usually associated with the metal silver is its metallic shine. This cannot be reproduced by a simple solid color because the shiny effect is due to the material's brightness varying with the surface angle to the light source. In addition, there is no mechanism for showing metallic or fluorescent colors on a computer without resorting to rendering software that simulates the action of light on a shiny surface. Consequently, in art and in heraldry, one would typically use a metallic paint that glitters like real silver. A matte gray color could also be used to represent silver.

  1. ^ "W3C TR CSS3 Color Module, HTML4 color keywords". W3.org. Retrieved 2009-04-15.