Silver (color)
Silver is the metallic shade resembling gray, closest to that of polished silver.
The visual sensation usually associated with the metal silver is its metallic shine. This cannot be reproduced by a simple solid color, because the shiny effect is due to the material's brightness varying with the surface angle to the light source. In addition, there is no mechanism for showing metallic or fluorescent colors on a computer without resorting to rendering software which simulates the action of light on a shiny surface. Consequently in art one would normally use a metallic paint that glitters like real silver. A matte grey color like the swatch on this page would not be considered silver.
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[edit] History
The first recorded use of silver as a color name in English was in 1481.[1]
[edit] Color definitions
[edit] Web color silver
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| Hex triplet | #C0C0C0 | |
| sRGBB | (r, g, b) | (192, 192, 192) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (--°, 0%, 75%) |
| Source | HTML/CSS[2] | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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Since version 3.2 of HTML "silver" is a name for one of the 16 basic-VGA-colors.
[edit] Silver (Crayola)
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| Hex triplet | #C9C0BB | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (201, 192, 187) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (0°, 0%, 80%) |
| Source | Crayola | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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This is the color called silver in Crayola crayons. It is not a neutral grayscale color, but rather a warm gray with a slight tone of orange-red.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 204; Color Sample of Silver: Page 97 Plate 37 Color Sample A2
- ^ "W3C TR CSS3 Color Module, HTML4 color keywords". W3.org. http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-color/#html4. Retrieved 2009-04-15.
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| black | gray | silver | white | maroon | red | purple | fuchsia | green | lime | olive | yellow | navy | blue | teal | aqua |
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| Gray | Ash gray | Battleship gray | Black | Cadet gray | Charcoal | Cool gray | Davy's gray | Payne's gray | Silver |
| Slate gray | Taupe | Purple taupe | Medium taupe | Rose quartz | Taupe gray | Timberwolf | White | ||
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