Bronze (color)

Antique Bronze
Antique Bronze
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#665D1E
sRGB B (r, g, b)	(102, 93, 30)
HSV (h, s, v)	(52°, 71%, 40%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)	(39, 37, 77°)
Source	ISCC-NBS
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Moderate olive
	B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte);

Blast-Off Bronze
Blast-Off Bronze
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#A57164
sRGB B (r, g, b)	(165, 113, 100)
HSV (h, s, v)	(12°, 39%, 65%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)	(53, 39, 24°)
Source	Crayola
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Light reddish brown
	B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte);

Bronze
Bronze
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#CD7F32
sRGB B (r, g, b)	(205, 127, 50)
HSV (h, s, v)	(30°, 76%, 80%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)	(60, 81, 39°)
Source	/Maerz and Paul[1]
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Strong orange
	B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte);

Last updated December 03, 2022

Bronze is a metallic brown color which resembles the metal alloy bronze.

Variations

Blast-off bronze

Blast-off bronze is one of the colors in the special set of metallic Crayola crayons called Metallic FX, the colors of which were formulated by Crayola in 2001.

Antique bronze

The first recorded use of antique bronze as a color name in English was in 1910.^[3]

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References

↑ The color displayed in the color box above matches the color called bronze, in the 1930 book by Maerz and Paul, A Dictionary of Color, New York: 1930 McGraw-Hill; the color bronze is displayed on page 51, Plate 14, Color Sample L9.
↑ Maerz and Paul, A Dictionary of Color, New York: 1930 McGraw-Hill, p. 191; Color Sample of Bronze: p. 51, Plate 14, Color Sample L9
↑ Maerz and Paul, A Dictionary of Color, New York: 1930 McGraw-Hill; p. 189, Color Sample of Bronze: p. 51, Plate 14, Color Sample L10