Silver | |
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Common connotations | |
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Color coordinates | |
Hex triplet | #C0C0C0 |
sRGB B (r, g, b) | (192, 192, 192) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (0°, 0%, 75%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (78, 0, 0°) |
Source | HTML/CSS [1] |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Light gray |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
Silver or metallic gray is a color tone resembling gray that is a representation of the color of polished silver.
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.
The first recorded use of silver as a color name in English was in 1481. [2] In heraldry, the word argent is used, [3] derived from Latin argentum over Medieval French argent.
Displayed at right is the web color silver.
Since version 3.2 of HTML "silver" is a name for one of the 16 basic-VGA-colors.
Silver (Crayola) | |
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Color coordinates | |
Hex triplet | #C9C0BB |
sRGB B (r, g, b) | (201, 192, 187) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (21°, 7%, 79%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (78, 7, 42°) |
Source | Crayola |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Yellowish gray |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
Crayola crayons have a color called silver which is a pale tone of silver color. This silver has been a Crayola color since 1903.
Crayola's silver is not a neutral grayscale color but a warm gray with a very slight tinge of orange-red.
Silver Pink | |
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Color coordinates | |
Hex triplet | #C4AEAD |
sRGB B (r, g, b) | (196, 174, 173) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (3°, 12%, 77%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (73, 14, 15°) |
Source | Plochere |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Grayish yellowish pink |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
The color silver pink is displayed on the right.
The color name silver pink first came into use in 1948.
The source of this color is the Plochere Color System, a color system formulated in 1948 that is widely used by interior designers. [4]
Silver Sand | |
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Color coordinates | |
Hex triplet | #BFC1C2 |
sRGB B (r, g, b) | (191, 193, 194) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (200°, 2%, 76%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (78, 2, 221°) |
Source | Xona.com Color List |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Light greenish gray |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
On the right is displayed the color silver sand.
The color name silver sand for this silver-tone has been used since 2001 when it was promulgated as one of the colors on the Xona.com Color List.
Silver Chalice | |
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Color coordinates | |
Hex triplet | #ACACAC |
sRGB B (r, g, b) | (172, 172, 172) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (0°, 0%, 67%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (70, 0, 0°) |
Source | Xona.com Color List |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Light gray |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
On the right is displayed the color silver chalice.
The color name silver chalice for this tone of silver has been in use since 2001 when it was promulgated as one of the colors on the Xona.com Color List.
Roman Silver | |
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Color coordinates | |
Hex triplet | #838996 |
sRGB B (r, g, b) | (131, 137, 150) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (221°, 13%, 59%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (57, 12, 250°) |
Source | Resene |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Bluish gray |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
On the right is displayed the color Roman silver.
Roman silver, a blue-gray tone of silver, is one of the colors on the Resene Color List.
Old Silver | |
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Color coordinates | |
Hex triplet | #848482 |
sRGB B (r, g, b) | (132, 132, 130) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (60°, 2%, 52%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (55, 2, 86°) |
Source | ISCC-NBS |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Greenish gray |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
At right is displayed the color old silver.
Old silver is a color formulated to resemble tarnished silver.
The first recorded use of old silver as a color name in English was in 1905. [5]
The normalized color coordinates for old silver are identical to battleship gray.
Sonic Silver | |
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Color coordinates | |
Hex triplet | #757575 |
sRGB B (r, g, b) | (117, 117, 117) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (0°, 0%, 46%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (49, 0, 0°) |
Source | Crayola |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Dark gray |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
Sonic silver is a tone of silver included in Metallic FX crayons, specialty crayons formulated by Crayola in 2001.
Salmon is a warm color ranging from light orange to pink, named after the color of salmon flesh.
Fuchsia is a vivid pinkish-purplish-red color, named after the color of the flower of the fuchsia plant, which was named by a French botanist, Charles Plumier, after the 16th-century German botanist Leonhart Fuchs.
Peach is a color that is named for the pale color of the interior flesh of the peach fruit. This name may also be substituted for "peachy". Like the color apricot, the color peach is paler than most actual peach fruits and seems to have been formulated primarily to create a pastel palette of colors for interior design.
Lavender is a light shade of purple or violet. It applies particularly to the color of the flower of the same name. The web color called lavender is displayed adjacent—it matches the color of the palest part of the flower; however, the more saturated color shown as floral lavender more closely matches the average color of the lavender flower as shown in the picture and is the tone of lavender historically and traditionally considered lavender by average people as opposed to website designers. The color lavender might be described as a medium purple, a pale bluish purple, or a light pinkish-purple. The term lavender may be used in general to apply to a wide range of pale, light, or grayish-purples, but only on the blue side; lilac is pale purple on the pink side. In paints, the color lavender is made by mixing purple and white paint.
Copper is a reddish brown color that resembles the metal copper.
Lemon or lemon-color is a vivid yellow color characteristic of the lemon fruit. Shades of "lemon" may vary significantly from the fruit's actual color, including fluorescent tones and creamy hues reflective of lemon pies and confections.
Cerise is a deep to vivid reddish pink.
Red-violet refers to a rich color of high medium saturation about 3/4 of the way between red and magenta, closer to magenta than to red. In American English, this color term is sometimes used in color theory as one of the purple colors—a non-spectral color between red and violet that is a deep version of a color on the line of purples on the CIE chromaticity diagram.
Apricot is a light yellowish-orangish color that is similar to the color of apricots. However, it is paler than actual apricots.
In optics, orange has a wavelength between approximately 585 and 620 nm and a hue of 30° in HSV color space. In the RGB color space it is a secondary color numerically halfway between gamma-compressed red and yellow, as can be seen in the RGB color wheel. The complementary color of orange is azure. Orange pigments are largely in the ochre or cadmium families, and absorb mostly blue light.
Varieties of the color green may differ in hue, chroma or lightness, or in two or three of these qualities. Variations in value are also called tints and shades, a tint being a green or other hue mixed with white, a shade being mixed with black. A large selection of these various colors is shown below.
Ruby is a color that is a representation of the color of the cut and polished ruby gemstone and is a shade of red or pink.
Pink colors are usually light or desaturated shades of reds, roses, and magentas which are created on computer and television screens using the RGB color model and in printing with the CMYK color model. As such, it is an arbitrary classification of color.
Livid is a medium bluish-gray color. This color name comes from the Latin color term lividus meaning "'a dull leaden-blue color', and also used to describe the color of contused flesh, leading to the English expression 'black and blue'". The first recorded use of livid as a color name in English was in 1622.
Varieties of the color blue may differ in hue, chroma, or lightness, or in two or three of these qualities. Variations in value are also called tints and shades, a tint being a blue or other hue mixed with white, a shade being mixed with black. A large selection of these colors is shown below.
Shades of white are colors that differ only slightly from pure white. Variations of white include what are commonly termed off-white colors, which may be considered part of a neutral color scheme.
Variations of gray or grey include achromatic grayscale shades, which lie exactly between white and black, and nearby colors with low colorfulness. A selection of a number of these various colors is shown below.
The color cyan, a greenish-blue, has notable tints and shades. It is one of the subtractive primary colors along with magenta, and yellow.
Rose is the color halfway between red and magenta on the HSV color wheel, also known as the RGB color wheel.