Flax (color)
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For the hair color, see Blond#flaxen.
| Light Goldenrod Yellow | ||
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— Color coordinates — |
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| Hex triplet | #FAFAD2 | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (250, 250, 210) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (60°, 16%, 98%) |
| Source | X11 | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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Flax (also known as Light Goldenrod) is a pale yellowish-gray color named after flax seeds. It is similar to the color mustard.
[edit] Flax in culture
- French impressionistic composer Claude Debussy's prelude N.8 Book 1 for Piano, "La fille aux cheveux de lin" (The Girl with the Flaxen Hair) , uses the color flax in its title.
- The main character in the Spice & Wolf Japanese novel, Horo, has been described as having flax-colored hair.
- In the novel A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett, the girl Ermengarde St. John is described as having flaxen hair.
- Zossimov, a character from Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, is described as having "straight flaxen hair."
[edit] See also
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| Amber | Apricot | Beige | Buff | Cream | Dark goldenrod | Ecru | Gold | Gold (metallic) | Goldenrod |
| Green-yellow | Jasmine | Jonquil | Khaki | Lemon chiffon | Lime | Lion | Maize | Mikado yellow | Naples yellow |
| Navajo white | Olive | Papaya whip | Saffron | School bus yellow | Selective yellow | Stil de grain yellow | Sunglow | Vanilla | Yellow |
| The samples shown above are only indicative. | |||||||||
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