Gold (color)

Gold (golden)
Gold (golden)
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.

[Paul_Page_195-1] Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 195

[2] Friar, Stephen, ed. (1987). A New Dictionary of Heraldry. London: Alphabooks/A&C Black. p. 343. ISBN 0-906670-44-6.

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