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Gold, also called golden, is a yellowish orange color which is a representation of the color of the element gold.
[edit] Golden (web color gold)
| Golden |
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#FFD700 |
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(255, 215, 0) |
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(51°, 100%, 100%) |
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X11 |
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The web color gold, displayed at right, (also referred to as orange-yellow) is traditionally referred to as golden in order to distinguish it from the color metallic gold. The use of gold as a color term in traditional usage is confined to referring to the color "metallic gold" (shown below).
The first recorded use of golden as a color name in English was in the year 1300 to refer to the element gold and in 1423 to refer to blonde hair.[1]
[edit] Gold (metallic gold)
| Metallic Gold |
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#D4AF37 |
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(r, g, b) |
(212, 175, 55) |
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(46°, 74%, 83%) |
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At right is displayed a representation of the color metallic gold (the color traditionally known as gold) which is a simulation of the color of the actual metallic element gold itself—gold shade.
The source of this color is the ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955), a color dictionary used by stamp collectors to identify the colors of stamps--See color sample of the color Gold (Color Sample Gold (T) #84) displayed on indicated web page: [1]
The distinctive sheen of a metallic color cannot be indicated on a computer screen as the web color display process has no mechanism for indicating metallic or fluorescent colors.
The first recorded use of gold as a color name in English was in the year 1400.[2]
[edit] Web color gold vs. metallic gold
The American Heritage Dictionary defines the color metallic gold as "A light olive-brown to dark yellow, or a moderate, strong to vivid yellow."
Of course, the visual sensation usually associated with the metal gold is its metallic shine. This cannot be reproduced by a simple solid color, because the shiny effect is due to the material's reflective brightness varying with the surface's angle to the light source.
This is why in art a metallic paint that glitters in an approximation of real gold would be used; a solid color like that of the cell displayed in the box to the right does not aesthetically "read" as gold. Especially in sacral art in Christian churches, real gold (as gold leaf) was used for rendering gold in paintings, e.g. for the halo of saints. Gold can also be woven into sheets of silk to give an East Asian traditional look.
More recent art styles, e.g. Art Nouveau, also made use of a metallic, shining gold; however, the metallic finish of such paints was added using fine aluminum powder and pigment rather than actual gold.
[edit] Metallic gold in interior design
There are three colors of Metallic Gold paint for coloring interior or exterior trim that are especially popular in San Francisco to use for trim in or on Victorian houses: Old Gold (a coppery gold color), Rich Gold (a bright metallic golden color), and Bright Gold (a yellowish gold color that looks like the color of brass). These metallic gold colors are sometimes called Byzantine Colors because of their popularity in the Byzantine Empire.
[edit] Satin sheen gold
| Satin Sheen Gold |
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| Hex triplet |
#CBA135 |
| RGBB |
(r, g, b) |
(203, 161, 53) |
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(49°, 74%, 76%) |
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At right is displayed the color satin sheen gold. This is the name of the color of the Starfleet command personnel uniform worn by Captain Kirk of the Starship Enterprise in the TV show and movies Star Trek.[3][4]
[edit] Vegas gold
| Vegas Gold |
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| Hex triplet |
#C5B358 |
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(197, 179, 88) |
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(50°, 55%, 77%) |
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Displayed at right is the color Vegas gold.
Vegas gold, rendered within narrow limits, is associated with the glamorous casinos and hotels of the Las Vegas Strip in the resort city of Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.[5]
[edit] Old gold
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| Old Gold |
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| Hex triplet |
#CFB53B |
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(r, g, b) |
(207, 181, 59) |
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(49°, 71%, 81%) |
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Old gold is a dark yellow, which varies from light olive or olive brown to deep or strong yellow. The widely-accepted color "Old Gold" is on the darker rather than the lighter side of this range.
The first recorded use of old gold as a color name in English was in the early 1800s (exact year uncertain).[6]
Maroon and Old Gold are the colors of Texas State University's intercollegiate sports teams. Old Gold and Black are the team colors of Purdue University Boilermakers intercollegiate sports teams. The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets wear White and Old Gold.
[edit] Pale gold
| Pale Gold |
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| Hex triplet |
#E6BE8A |
| RGBB |
(r, g, b) |
(230, 190, 138) |
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(50°, 47%, 82%) |
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Crayola |
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The color pale gold is displayed at right.
This is the color called gold in Crayola crayons since 1958.
[edit] Golden poppy
| Golden Poppy |
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| Hex triplet |
#FCC200 |
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(r, g, b) |
(252, 194, 0) |
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(47°, 98%, 97%) |
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Golden poppy is a shade of golden that is the color of the California poppy-- the official state flower of California--the Golden State.
The first recorded use of golden poppy as a color name in English was in 1927.[7]
The source of this color is a color sample taken from the Wikipedia article on the California poppy.
[edit] Sunglow
| Sunglow |
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| Hex triplet |
#FFCC33 |
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(r, g, b) |
(255, 204, 51) |
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(50°, 99%, 98%) |
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Crayola |
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The color sunglow is displayed at right.
This is a Crayola crayon color formulated in 1990.
Sunglow is also called "MU Gold" by the University of Missouri and is used as the official school color along with black.[8]
[edit] Golden yellow
| Golden yellow |
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| Hex triplet |
#FFDF00 |
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(255, 223, 0) |
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(52.5°, 100%, 100%) |
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Golden yellow is the color halfway between amber and yellow. It is a color that is 87.5% yellow and 12.5% red.
The first recorded use of golden yellow as a color name in English was in the year 1597.[9]
[edit] Golden brown
| Golden brown |
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| Hex triplet |
#996515 |
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(r, g, b) |
(153, 101, 21) |
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(51°, 37%, 47%) |
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At right is displayed the color golden brown.
The first recorded use of golden brown as a color name in English was in the year 1891.[10]
Source of color: ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955)--Color Sample of golden brown (color sample #74)(matches color called golden brown in A Dictionary of Colorby Maerz and Paul):
[edit] Golden in nature
Protista
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[edit] Golden in human culture
- Alcoholic Beverages
- Architecture
- Art
- Awards
- The highest award for achievement in many fields is called the Gold medal.
- Business
- In finance, golden symbolizes of course the element Gold, the standard of monetary value throughout human history.
- In monetary policy, the gold standard is a monetary system in which the standard economic unit of account is a fixed weight of gold.
- Gold is a popular investment throughout the world.
- In stock market terminology, a golden share is a nominal share which is able to outvote all other shares in certain specified circumstances, often held by a government organization, in a government company undergoing the process of privatization and transformation into a stock-company.
- In marketing, the term Gold Standard refers to a product that so satisfies the consumer that it functions as a standard for all other products of the same type.
- In human resources, a business executive or professional who has an employment contract that gives them a generous severance pay is said to have a golden parachute.
- In executive compensation, a golden coffin is a package of benefits that continues to accrue to the heirs of a CEO even after the CEO has died.[11]
- In advertising for the Union Pacific Railroad in the 1950s, the southwestern states of the United States served by the Union Pacific were collectively called The Golden Empire because the railroad's diesel engines were and are colored golden, red, and black. Ads with maps showing the Union Pacific's Golden Empire colored golden were placed in many popular mass-circulation magazines.
- Cosmetology
- Blonde hair in women (or sometimes men) is sometimes referred to poetically as golden. It is estimated by geneticists that the gene for blond hair originated about 3000 BC in the area now known as Lithuania among the recently arrived Proto-Indo-European settlers of the area (Lithuania is still the country that has the highest percentage of people with blonde hair); it is thought the gene spread quickly through sexual selection into Scandinavia when that area was settled because men found women with blond hair attractive.[12][13]
- Culture
- A past era during which the highest quality art was produced or in mythology during which humans were believed to have lived a Utopian lifestyle, is called a golden age.
- Drugs
- Education
- In K-12 education, when students do well on an assignment, the teacher sometimes gives them a gold star by their name on the classroom bulletin board.
- Exploration
- Fables
- Film
- Food
- Gemstones
- Genetic engineering
- Geography
- California is called the Golden State because California is where the California Gold Rush began in 1849.
- The Golden Gate (the strait that connects the Pacific Ocean to San Francisco Bay), was named on 1 July 1846 by explorer John C. Frémont who wrote, "To this Gate I gave the name of Chrysopylae, or Golden Gate; for the same reasons that the harbor of Byzantium was called Chrysoceras, or Golden Horn."[16]
- The Golden Gate Bridge is cited by the American Society of Civil Engineers as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World.
- In Cantonese, Northern California is called Gum Shan (Gold Mountain) (Mandarin: Jin Shan) because of the gold fields the Forty-Niners travelled to and because Chinese Americans regarded it as a place to get rich by starting their own business.
- Golden, Colorado, a suburb of Denver, is most noted for being the headquarters of the Coors Brewing Company. Also, appropriately, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, which does research on solar energy, is located in Golden, Colorado.
- Before Ghana became independent in 1957, it was a British colony called Gold Coast.
- In ancient Sanskrit, the area we now call Southeast Asia (including both mainland Southeast Asia and the area now known as Maritime Asia [i.e., Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines) was referred to by the people of ancient India as Suvarnadvipa, which means Golden island (suvarna=golden; dvipa=island).[17] The name Suvarnadvipa comes originally from the fact that there were rich gold deposits on the island of Sumatra. The Greek geographer Ptolemy mistakenly applied the Ancient Greek name for gold, Chryse, to the adjacent country of Malaya.[18]
- In the traditional national anthem of Iran, Iran is called our golden country. The first lines of the anthem are: "Oh Iran, our golden country, your land is the wellspring of art. Let the thoughts of your enemies be far from you."[19]
- Gerontology
- History
- Interior Design
- The Queen’s Bedchamber in the Grand appartement de la reine in the Versailles Palace is decorated in the color gold. This room was where Marie Antoinette wife of King Louis XVI of France slept.
- Golden represents the warmth of the sun, and because of this it is the favorite color for painting kitchens because many feel that having their breakfast and morning coffee in a golden kitchen gives them the energy they need to start the day.
- Golden is a warm color that can both provide not only a bright and cheerful feeling but also a somber, traditional, and religious aura. Golden tends to go well with earth colors, but it can also enrich a palette of red or burgundy.
- Law
- Legends
- The capital city of Atlantis is said to have been called The City of the Golden Gates.[21] Because of this, (and because of the existence of the Transamerica Pyramid, which is like the pyramid that is said to have existed as one of the major structures in the City of the Golden Gates, it is thought by some New Age people that a number of the inhabitants of San Francisco (the City by the Golden Gate) are reincarnated from Atlantis.[22]
- Literature
- Magic
- Marriage
- The 50th wedding anniversary is called the Golden Anniversary and one is expected to give gifts made of gold to a couple celebrating that anniversary. By extension, the 50th anniversary of any important event is called the golden jubilee.
- Music
- Mythology
- Nazi Germany
- Panelology
- Parapsychology
- Philosophy
- Politics
- Professions
- A person who attains notoriety at a young age in a their chosen profession is called a golden boy or a golden girl.
- Religion
- The color golden is associated with Buddhism:
- The Doctrine of the Golden Mean is a chapter in the Li Ji, one of the Four Books of Confucianism.
- The Secret of the Golden Flower is an important religious text in Daoism.
- The Golden Temple in Amritsar, Punjab, India, is the holiest site of the Sikh religion.
- The Golden Mosque in Samarra, Iraq, a Shiite Muslim holy site constructed in 944, was the target of the Golden Mosque bombing on 22 February 2006.
- The Golden Calf of the Old Testament, in Judaism and Christianity, is generally thought to symbolically represent the false worship of the god Mammon (i.e., wealth), instead of the true God of the Bible, Jehovah.
- Although the colors blue and white are usually associated with Mormonism,[30][31] the color golden has an important place in the Latter Day Saint movement:
- In the New Age Ascended Master Teachings of the Church Universal and Triumphant (which are based on Theosophy) it is believed that the Master Kuthumi has a special organization around him called the Order of the Brothers of the Golden Robe that is dedicated to the enlightenment of humanity through the second ray of wisdom.[32]
- In Scientology, The Gold Base is the informal name of the international headquarters of the Church of Scientology[33][34], located on a 500-acre (2.0 km2) parcel of land near Hemet, California. The area is the home of Golden Era Productions, the media and publications division of the church.
- In all world religions, the golden rule is promulgated as a basic standard of human conduct.
- Role playing games
- Sorority colors
Sororities which use gold as an official color include:
- Sports
- A gold medal is a medal awarded to the first place finisher of contests (typically athletics competitions) such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, etc.
- Fans of the National Football League will note the Pittsburgh Steelers and Washington Redskins as having gold as a color. The gold they use, however, is a distinctly more yellow color (akin to the non-metallic web color version) than the traditional "old gold" used by the New Orleans Saints and San Francisco 49ers. The color is nevertheless still referred to as "gold".
- In Major League Baseball, the Tampa Bay Rays use gold as one of the team's primary colors.
- In the NBA, the Cleveland Cavaliers, Washington Wizards and the Boston Celtics use "old gold" as an accent to their primary colors wine, blue and green, respectively. The Los Angeles Lakers, Indiana Pacers, Denver Nuggets, Golden State Warriors, Memphis Grizzlies, New Orleans Hornets and Seattle Supersonics also use gold as an accent color, although the shade is mostly yellowish in appearance.
- The Golden Gloves is the name given to annual competitions for amateur boxing in the United States.
- The Gold Coast is an area just south of Brisbane, Australia, that is noted for its excellent surfing.
- State Decorations
- Surnames
- Vexillology
[edit] References
- ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 195
- ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 195
- ^ Dillard, J.M. Star Trek: The Lost Years New York:1989 Pocket Books Page 17
- ^ J. M. Dillard (2002). Star Trek V, Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0743454235, http://books.google.com/books?id=DvPAuwYP7hcC&pg=PA323&lpg=PA323&dq=satin-sheen-gold+star-trek&source=bl&ots=VYPgELvwi8&sig=C41YToMYjaVvI_9oKxIeuZZ2Fn8&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result.
- ^ Google Images search for Vegas gold:
- ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 200; Color Sample of Old Gold Page 51 Plate 14 Color Sample K5
- ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 196; Color Sample: golden poppy Page 41 Plate 9 Color Sample L12
- ^ MU Logo Guidelines for the Web
- ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 195; Color sample of golden yellow: Page 43--Plate 10 Color Sample L7
- ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 195; Color sample of golden brown: Page 51--Plate 14 Color Sample F12
- ^ CEOs Make Money After They Die With Golden Coffin Benefits:
- ^ Cavalli-Sforza, L. Luca; Menozzi, Paolo; and Piazza Alberto The History and Geography of Human Genes Princeton, New Jersey: 1994 Princeton University Press Page 266
- ^ Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
- ^ Calderon’s Offensive Against Drug Cartels—Washington Post Sunday, July 8, 2007 Page A15:
- ^ National Geographic magazine, August 2006, page 31
- ^ Gudde, Erwin G. California Place Names (2004) University of California Press, London, England. ISBN 0-520-24217-3.
- ^ Bharati, Agehananda The Tantric Tradition New York:1965 Samuel Weiser Page 62
- ^ Suvarnadvipa and the Chryse Chersonesos by W. J. van der Meulen Indonesia, Vol. 18, Oct., 1974 (Oct., 1974), pp. 1-40 doi:10.2307/3350691:
- ^ Satrapi, Marjane Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood New York:2003 Pantheon (Random House) ISBN 0-375-42230-7 Page 83
- ^ Norwich, John Julius Byzantium:The Early Centuries (Volume I of three volume History of the Byzantine Empire) New York:2001 Alfred A. Knopf Page 301
- ^ Powell, A.E. The Solar System (A complete outline of the Theosophical scheme of evolution) Wheaton, Illinois:1930 Theosophical Press Page 228
- ^ Maupin, Armistead Tales of the City New York:1978 Harper and Row
- ^ Ellik, Ron and Evans, Bill (Illustrations by Bjo Trimble) The Universes of E.E. Smith Chicago:1966 Advent Publishers Page 129
- ^ Smith, E.E. Triplanetary Reading, Pennsylvania, USA:1948 -- Fantasy Press Page 140
- ^ Overstreet, Robert M. Official Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide 38th Edition New York:2008 (Glossary Pages--1026-1031) Page 1028
- ^ Uncle Scrooge #24 December 1958—February 1959 Published quarterly by Dell Publishing Co. The Twenty Four Carat Moon
- ^ Swami Panchadasi The Human Aura: Astral Colors and Thought Forms Des Plaines, Illinois, USA:1912--Yogi Publications Society Page 34
- ^ Oslie, Pamalie Life Colors: What the Colors in Your Aura Reveal Novato, California:2000--New World Library Golden Auras: Page 341
- ^ Arthur E. Powell The Astral Body and Other Astral Phenomenon Wheaton, Illinois:1927—Theosophical Publishing House Page 12
- ^ Mormon Flag:
- ^ Christus statue in the North Visitor’s Center in Temple Square, Salt Lake City, Utah:
- ^ "Kuthumi" (Channeled through Elizabeth Clare Prophet) Studies of the Human Aura Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA:1975 Summit University Press Page 20
- ^ Affidavit of Andre Tabayoyan United States District Court, Central District of California case no. CV 91 6426 HLH (Tx)
- ^ Affidavit of Jesse Prince United States District Court, Central District of California, San Jose Division case no. C-95-20091 RMW (EAI)
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