Marigold (color)

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Marigold

CIELCh_uv (L, C, h)		(72, 91, 49°)
Source	ISCC-NBS
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Strong orange yellow
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

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

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

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Gold

Gold (golden)

CIELCh_uv (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".

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

Yellow-orange

Yellow Orange

CIELCh_uv (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.

Orange-yellow

Orange Yellow

CIELCh_uv (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

CIELCh_uv (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.

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

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 196; Color Sample of Goldenrod: Page 43 Plate 10 Color Sample L5

Shades of orange

Desert sand (color)	Engineering orange	Flame	Giants orange	Gold	Golden Gate Bridge	Goldenrod

Hunyadi yellow	Light orange	Mahogany	Melon	Orange (Crayola)	Orange (Pantone)	Orange peel	Orange (web)	Orange (wheel)	Papaya whip

Peach	Persian orange	Persimmon	Portland orange	Princeton orange	Pumpkin	Rust	Safety orange	Saffron	Spanish orange

Tangelo	Tangerine	Tawny	Tiger’s Eye	Titian Red	UT orange	Xanthous

A typical sample is shown for each name; a range of color-variations is commonly associated with each color-name.

Shades of yellow

Peach-yellow

Pear	Saffron	School bus yellow	Selective yellow	Stil de grain yellow	Straw	Sunglow	Sunset	Vanilla	Wheat

Yellow

A typical sample is shown for each name; a range of color-variations is commonly associated with each color-name.

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