Marigold (color)

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Marigold
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#EAA221
HSV       (h, s, v)	(39°, 85%, 91%)
sRGBB  (r, g, b)	(234, 162, 33)
Source	ISCC-NBS
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Strong orange yellow
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

French marigolds

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

It is currently unknown when marigold was first used as a colour name, although the New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield used it to describe a hair colour in her short story Something Childish But Very Natural (1914).^{[citation needed]}

Variations of marigold[]

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Gold[]

Gold (golden)
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#FFD700
HSV       (h, s, v)	(51°, 100%, 100%)
sRGBB  (r, g, b)	(255, 215, 0)
Source	X11
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Vivid yellow
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

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".

The first recorded use of golden as a color name in English was in 1300.^[1]

Yellow-orange[]

Yellow Orange
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#FFAE42
HSV       (h, s, v)	(34°, 74%, 100%)
sRGBB  (r, g, b)	(255, 174, 66)
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[]

Orange Yellow
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#F8D568
HSV       (h, s, v)	(45°, 58%, 97%)
sRGBB  (r, g, b)	(248, 213, 104)
Source	Crayola
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Brilliant yellow
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Orange-yellow was a Crayola crayon color from 1958 to 1990.

Goldenrod[]

Goldenrod
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#DAA520
HSV       (h, s, v)	(43°, 85%, 85%)
sRGBB  (r, g, b)	(218, 165, 32)
Source	X11
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Strong yellow
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

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)

The first recorded use of goldenrod as a color name in English was in 1915.^[2]

See also[]

• Gold (color)
• List of colors

References[]

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