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Marigold is a yellow-orange color. It is named after the flower of the same name.
| Marigold | |
|---|---|
 Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #EAA221 |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (234, 162, 33) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (39°, 86%, 92%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (72, 91, 49°) |
| Source | ISCC-NBS |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Strong orange yellow |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield used “marigold” describe a hair colour in her short story Something Childish But Very Natural in 1914.[citation needed]
Variations of marigold
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Gold
edit| Gold (golden) | |
|---|---|
| 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 one of a variety of yellow-orange color blends used to give the impression of the color of the element gold.
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".
Yellow-orange
edit| Yellow Orange | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #FFAE42 |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (255, 174, 66) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (34°, 74%, 100%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (77, 94, 46°) |
| Source | Crayola |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Strong orange yellow |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
Yellow-orange has been a Crayola crayon color since 1930.
Orange-yellow
edit| Orange Yellow | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #F8D568 |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (248, 213, 104) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (45°, 58%, 97%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (86, 76, 67°) |
| Source | Crayola |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Brilliant yellow |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
Orange-yellow was a Crayola crayon color from 1958 to 1990.
Goldenrod
edit| Goldenrod | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #DAA520 |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (218, 165, 32) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (43°, 85%, 85%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (71, 83, 58°) |
| Source | X11 |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Strong yellow |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
Displayed at right is the web color goldenrod.
The color goldenrod is a representation of the color of some of the deeper gold colored goldenrod flowers.
The first recorded use of goldenrod as a color name in English was in 1915.[1]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 196; Color Sample of Goldenrod: Page 43 Plate 10 Color Sample L5
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