Marigold_(color)

Marigold (color)

Marigold (color)

Yellow-orange color


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

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French marigolds
French marigolds

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

Gold

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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".

Yellow-orange

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Yellow-orange has been a Crayola crayon color since 1930.

Orange-yellow

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

Goldenrod

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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
Solidago (goldenrod)

The first recorded use of goldenrod as a color name in English was in 1915.[1]

See also


References

  1. 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



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