Marigold (color)

This article is about the color. For other uses, see Marigold.

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

Marigold
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#EAA221
sRGBB (r, g, b)	(234, 162, 33)
HSV (h, s, v)	(39°, 86%, 92%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)	(72, 91, 49°)
Source	ISCC-NBS[1]
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Strong orange yellow
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

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

Main article: Gold (color)

Gold (golden)
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#FFD700
sRGBB (r, g, b)	(255, 215, 0)
HSV (h, s, v)	(51°, 100%, 100%)
CIELChuv (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".

Yellow-orange

Main article: List of Crayola crayon colors § Standard colors

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

Marigold Flowers as garland in India

Orange-yellow

Orange Yellow
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#F8D568
sRGBB (r, g, b)	(248, 213, 104)
HSV (h, s, v)	(45°, 58%, 97%)
CIELChuv (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

Main article: Goldenrod (color)

Goldenrod
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#DAA520
sRGBB (r, g, b)	(218, 165, 32)
HSV (h, s, v)	(43°, 85%, 85%)
CIELChuv (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.

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