Marigold (color)

Yellow Orange
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);

Gold (golden)
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);

Marigold
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
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.

French marigolds

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).

Variations of marigold

Gold

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 has been a Crayola crayon color since 1930.

Orange-yellow

Orange Yellow

Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#F8D568
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(248, 213, 104)
HSV (h, s, v)	(45°, 58%, 97%)
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

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

Solidago (goldenrod)

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

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[Paul_Page_195-1] Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 195

[2] 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