Bronze (color)
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This article is about the color. For other uses, see Bronze (disambiguation).
| Bronze | |
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| Common connotations | |
| Bronze medal Bronze Age Mestizos/Hispanics/La Raza | |
 Color coordinates |
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| Hex triplet | #CD7F32 |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (205, 127, 50) |
| CMYKH (c, m, y, k) | (0, , , ) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (30°, 75.6%, 80.4%) |
| Source | [1]/Maerz and Paul[1] |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) |
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At right is displayed the color bronze. Bronze is a metallic brown color which resembles the actual alloy bronze.
The first recorded use of bronze as a color name in English was in 1753.[2]
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Variations of bronze [edit]
Blast-off bronze [edit]
| Blast-Off Bronze | |
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| Color coordinates |
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| Hex triplet | #A57164 |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (165, 113, 100) |
| CMYKH (c, m, y, k) | (0, 32, 39, 35) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (12°, 39%, 65[3]%) |
| Source | Crayola |
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Displayed at right is the color blast-off bronze.
Blast-off bronze is one of the colors in the special set of metallic Crayola crayons called Metallic FX, the colors of which were formulated by Crayola in 2001.
This is supposed to be a metallic color, but there is no mechanism for displaying metallic colors on a flat computer screen.
Antique bronze [edit]
| Antique Bronze | |
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| Color coordinates |
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| Hex triplet | #665D1E |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (102, 93, 30) |
| CMYKH (c, m, y, k) | (0, 9, 71, 60) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (53°, 71%, 40[4]%) |
| Source | ISCC NBS |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) |
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At right is displayed the color antique bronze.
The first recorded use of antique bronze as a color name in English was in 1910.[5]
Bronze in human culture [edit]
- The Age of Bronze is a sculpture by Rodin.
- Mestizo Hispanics often refer to themselves as the Bronze Race. The use of the term bronze to describe La Raza derives from the book La Raza Cosmica by Jose Vasconcelos.
- In the popular children's book series Harry Potter, the house colors of Ravenclaw are blue and bronze.
- The Bronze Star Medal is a United States Armed Forces individual military decoration that may be awarded for bravery, acts of merit, or meritorious service.
- The Bronze Medal of Valor is one of the Awards and decorations of the Civil Air Patrol of the United States.
- The Bronze Age in mythology denotes a time when human beings led a less idyllic life than in the Golden Age or the Silver Age.
- Comic books published between 1970 and 1984 are called Bronze Age Comic Books.[6]
- Age of Bronze is a comic book published by Image Comics.
- The Bronze Tiger is a superhero in the DC Universe.
- The term Bronze Age refers to a period in human cultural development when the most advanced metalworking (at least in systematic and widespread use) included techniques for smelting copper and tin from naturally-occurring outcroppings of copper and tin ores, creating a bronze alloy by melting those metals together, and casting them into bronze artifacts.
- In Dungeons & Dragons, the bronze dragon is one of the metallic dragons.
- A Bronze medal is a medal awarded to the third place finisher of contests (typically athletics competitions) such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, etc.
References [edit]
- ^ The color displayed in the color box above matches the color called bronze in the 1930 book by Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill; the color bronze is displayed on page 51 Plate 14, Color Sample L9.
- ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 191; Color Sample of Bronze: Page 51 Plate 14 Color Sample L9
- ^ web.forrett.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code #A57164 (Blast-Off Bronze):
- ^ web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code of color #665D1E (Antique Bronze):
- ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 189; Color Sample of Bronze: Page 51 Plate 14 Color Sample L10
- ^ Overstreet, Robert M. Official Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide 38th Edition New York:2008 (Glossary Pages 1026-1031) Page 1026
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