Marigold (color)

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Marigold
 
Gtk-dialog-info.svg    Color coordinates
Hex triplet #EAA221
sRGB B (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)
French marigolds French marigold.jpg
French marigolds

Marigold is a yellow-orange color. It is named after the flower of the same name.

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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

Gold

Gold (golden)
 
Gtk-dialog-info.svg    Color coordinates
Hex triplet #FFD700
sRGB B (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

Yellow Orange
 
Gtk-dialog-info.svg    Color coordinates
Hex triplet #FFAE42
sRGB B (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.

Marigold Flowers as garland in India Marigold Flowers as garland in India.jpg
Marigold Flowers as garland in India

Orange-yellow

Orange Yellow
 
Gtk-dialog-info.svg    Color coordinates
Hex triplet #F8D568
sRGB B (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

Goldenrod
 
Gtk-dialog-info.svg    Color coordinates
Hex triplet #DAA520
sRGB B (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.

Solidago (goldenrod) Solidago Goldenrod.jpg
Solidago (goldenrod)

The first recorded use of goldenrod as a color name in English was in 1915. [1]

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References

  1. 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