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ABOUT
THE COLOR GOLD
Gold, also called golden, is an orangish-yellow color which is a representation
of the color of the element gold. Metallic gold, such as in paint,
is often called goldtone or gold-tone. In model building, the color
gold is different from brass. A shiny or metallic silvertone object
can be painted with transparent yellow to obtain goldtone, something
often done with Christmas decorations. The web color gold (also referred
to as orange-yellow) is sometimes referred to as golden in order 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 the year 1300 to refer to the element gold and in
1423 to refer to blonde hair.
Variations
Gold (metallic gold)
At right is displayed a representation of the color metallic gold
(the color traditionally known as gold) which is a simulation of the
color of the actual metallic element gold itself—gold shade. The source
of this color is the ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955), a
color dictionary used by stamp collectors to identify the colors of
stamps--See color sample of the color Gold (Color Sample Gold (T)
#84) displayed on indicated web page: The distinctive sheen of a metallic
color cannot be indicated on a computer screen as the web color display
process has no mechanism for indicating metallic or fluorescent colors.
The first recorded use of gold as a color name in English was in the
year 1400
Web
color gold vs. metallic gold
The American Heritage Dictionary defines the color metallic gold as
"A light olive-brown to dark yellow, or a moderate, strong to vivid
yellow." Of course, the visual sensation usually associated with the
metal gold is its metallic shine. This cannot be reproduced by a simple
solid color, because the shiny effect is due to the material's reflective
brightness varying with the surface's angle to the light source. This
is why in art a metallic paint that glitters in an approximation of
real gold would be used; a solid color like that of the cell displayed
in the box to the right does not aesthetically "read" as gold. Especially
in sacral art in Christian churches, real gold (as gold leaf) was
used for rendering gold in paintings, e.g. for the halo of saints.
Gold can also be woven into sheets of silk to give an East Asian traditional
look. More recent art styles, e.g. Art Nouveau, also made use of a
metallic, shining gold; however, the metallic finish of such paints
was added using fine aluminum powder and pigment rather than actual
gold.
Metallic
gold in interior design
There are three colors of Metallic Gold paint for coloring interior
or exterior trim that are especially popular in San Francisco to use
for trim in or on Victorian houses: Old Gold (a coppery gold color),
Rich Gold (a bright metallic golden color), and Bright Gold (a yellowish
gold color that looks like the color of brass). These metallic gold
colors are sometimes called Byzantine Colors because of their popularity
in the Byzantine Empire.
Satin
sheen gold
At right is displayed the color satin sheen gold. This is the name
of the color of the Starfleet command personnel uniform worn by Captain
Kirk of the Starship Enterprise in the TV show and movies Star Trek.
Old gold
Old gold is a dark yellow, which varies from light olive or olive
brown to deep or strong yellow. The widely-accepted color "Old Gold"
is on the darker rather than the lighter side of this range. The first
recorded use of old gold as a color name in English was in the early
1800s (exact year uncertain). Maroon and Old Gold are the colors of
Texas State University's intercollegiate sports teams. Old Gold and
Black are the team colors of Purdue University Boilermakers intercollegiate
sports teams. The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets wear White and Old Gold.
Pale
gold
The color pale gold is displayed at right. This is the color called
gold in Crayola crayons since 1958.
Golden poppy
Golden poppy is a shade of golden that is the color of the California
poppy-- the official state flower of California--the Golden State.
The first recorded use of golden poppy as a color name in English
was in 1927. The source of this color is a color sample taken from
the Wikipedia article on the California poppy.
Sunglow
The color sunglow is displayed at right. This is a Crayola crayon
color formulated in 1990. Sunglow is also called "MU Gold" by the
University of Missouri and is used as the official school color along
with black.
Golden yellow
Golden yellow is the color halfway between amber and yellow. It is
a color that is 87.5% yellow and 12.5% red. The first recorded use
of golden yellow as a color name in English was in the year 1597.
Golden brown
At right is displayed the color golden brown. The first recorded use
of golden brown as a color name in English was in the year 1891. Source
of color: ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955)--Color Sample
of golden brown (color sample #74)(matches color called golden brown
in A Dictionary of Colorby Maerz and Paul)
Golden
in nature
Protista
* The golden algae or chrysophytes are a large group of heterokont
algae, found mostly in freshwater.
Plants
* The golden poppy and goldenrod are popular flowers to cultivate
in horticulture.
Animals
* The golden eagle is a Northern Hemisphere bird of prey.
* The golden retriever is a medium sized breed of dog that is one
of the most popular companion animals.
* The golden toad was an amphibian that used to live in Costa Rica
that is now extinct.
* The goldfish is was one of the earliest fish to be domesticated,
and is still one of the most commonly kept aquarium fish and water
garden fish.
Golden in human culture
Alcoholic Beverages
* Beer is poetically called the golden brew.
Architecture
* The Golden House was a 300 room palace in which the Roman Emperor
Nero held parties organized by his official party planner Petronius.
Art
* Lions are colored golden in art as a symbol of monarchy. The golden
Lion was the symbol of the British Empire and is on the Coat of Arms
of the United Kingdom.
* The artist Gustav Klimt often used the color metallic gold in his
paintings.
* Metallic gold was often used in Byzantine art.
* The golden ratio is often used in art, graphic design, and architecture,
as well as appearing in nature among living things.
Awards
* The highest award for achievement in many fields is called the Gold
medal.
Business
* In finance, golden symbolizes of course the element Gold, the standard
of monetary value throughout human history.
* In monetary policy, the gold standard is a monetary system in which
the standard economic unit of account is a fixed weight of gold. *
Gold is a popular investment throughout the world.
* In stock market terminology, a golden share is a nominal share which
is able to outvote all other shares in certain specified circumstances,
often held by a government organization, in a government company undergoing
the process of privatization and transformation into a stock-company.
* In marketing, the term Gold Standard refers to a product that so
satisfies the consumer that it functions as a standard for all other
products of the same type.
* In human resources, a business executive or professional who has
an employment contract that gives them a generous severance pay is
said to have a golden parachute.
* In executive compensation, a golden coffin is a package of benefits
that continues to accrue to the heirs of a CEO even after the CEO
has died.
* In advertising for the Union Pacific Railroad in the 1950s, the
southwestern states of the United States served by the Union Pacific
were collectively called The Golden Empire because the railroad's
diesel engines were and are colored golden, red, and black. Ads with
maps showing the Union Pacific's Golden Empire colored golden were
placed in many popular mass-circulation magazines.
Cosmetology
* Blonde hair in women (or sometimes men) is sometimes referred to
poetically as golden. It is estimated by geneticists that the gene
for blonde hair originated about 3000 BC in the area now known as
Lithuania among the recently arrived Proto-Indo-European settlers
of the area (Lithuania is still the country that has the highest percentage
of people with blonde hair); it is thought the gene spread quickly
through sexual selection into Scandinavia when that area was settled
because men found women with blonde hair attractive
Culture
* A past era during which the highest quality art was produced or
in mythology during which humans were believed to have lived a Utopian
lifestyle, is called a golden age.
Drugs
* The Golden Triangle and the Golden Crescent are areas in Asia where
large quantities of opium are grown.
* The Golden Triangle of Mexico is composed of the three Mexican states
of Sinaloa, Durango, and Chihuahua, where Mexican drug lords engage
in a murderous rivalry for control of the drug importation routes
north into the United States.
Education
* In K-12 education, when students do well on an assignment, the teacher
sometimes gives them a gold star by their name on the classroom bulletin
board.
Exploration
* On 26 September 1580, Sir Francis Drake returned to England, becoming
the second person to circumnavigate the globe. His ship was called
the Golden Hinde.
Fables
* The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs is one of many fables attributed
to Aesop.
Film
* The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures
and television programs, given out each year during a formal dinner.
* The Golden Raspberry Awards have been given out each year since
1980 for the worst Hollywood productions and performances.
* The Golden Turkey Awards is a 1980 book by film critic Michael Medved
and his brother Harry Medved. The book awards the fictional "Golden
Turkey Awards" to films that the Medveds feel are poor in quality.
* The Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival is the most important national
film festival in Turkey. Since 2005, the festival is accompanied by
the International Eurasia Film Festival.
Food
* Common golden foods include maize (the grain that is called corn
in America), sweet potatoes (their interior flesh), butternut squash,
and so-called white wine and "white" grape juice.
* When fried chicken or waffles are done just right, they are said
to be golden brown.
* The Yukon Gold potato is popular for making mashed potatoes because
of its buttery flavor.
* Golden Oreos are composed of vanilla instead of chocolate cookies
with a vanilla cream filling.
* Golden raisins are dried grapes that have been treated with sulfur
dioxide and flame-dried.
Gemstones
* South Sea Pearls, which have historically been cultured in the Indian
and Pacific Oceans, in the countries of Myanmar, Indonesia, the Philippines,
and Northern Australia but mostly attributed to the former thalassocratic
Sultanate of Sulu have a gold colored variety from the Pinctada maxima
Pearl oyster. This golden pearl is the national gemstone of the Philippine
Republic This can now be manufactured in the laboratory at a much
lower cost.
Genetic
engineering
* Golden rice is a variety of rice produced through genetic engineering
to biosynthesize the precursors of beta-carotene (pro-vitamin A) in
the edible parts of rice.
Geography
* California is called the Golden State because California is where
the California Gold Rush began in 1849. * The Golden Gate (the strait
that connects the Pacific Ocean to San Francisco Bay), was named on
1 July 1846 by explorer John C. Frémont who wrote, "To this Gate I
gave the name of Chrysopylae, or Golden Gate; for the same reasons
that the harbor of Byzantium was called Chrysoceras, or Golden Horn."
* The Golden Gate Bridge is cited by the American Society of Civil
Engineers as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World.
* In Cantonese, Northern California is called Gum Shan (Gold Mountain)
(Mandarin: Jin Shan) because of the gold fields the Forty-Niners travelled
to and because Chinese Americans regarded it as a place to get rich
by starting their own business.
* Golden, Colorado, a suburb of Denver, is most noted for being the
headquarters of the Coors Brewing Company. Also, appropriately, the
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, which does research on solar
energy, is located in Golden, Colorado.
* Before Ghana became independent in 1957, it was a British colony
called Gold Coast.
* In ancient Sanskrit, the area we now call Southeast Asia (including
both mainland Southeast Asia and the area now known as Maritime Asia
[i.e., Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines) was referred to by
the people of ancient India as Suvarnadvipa, which means Golden island
(suvarna=golden; dvipa=island). The name Suvarnadvipa comes originally
from the fact that there were rich gold deposits on the island of
Sumatra. The Greek geographer Ptolemy mistakenly applied the Ancient
Greek name for gold, Chryse, to the adjacent country of Malaya.
* In the traditional national anthem of Iran, Iran is called our golden
country. The first lines of the anthem are: "Oh Iran, our golden country,
your land is the wellspring of art. Let the thoughts of your enemies
be far from you."
* In Texas, the area in the southeastern portion of the state is often
called the Golden Triangle for its great economic wealth in the petrolium,
natural gas and chemical industry.
Gerontology
* A senior citizen is sometimes called a golden ager.
History
* The Golden Gate (Porta Aurea) was the Imperial entrance gate of
the Walls of Constantinople and the largest among the 55 gates around
the city walls which protected Constantinople (present-day Istanbul).
It had three arches and was plated in solid gold.
* The Golden Horde was a Mongol khanate that ruled southern Russia
in the 13th century.
Interior
Design
* The Queen’s Bedchamber in the Grand appartement de la reine in the
Versailles Palace is decorated in the color gold. This room was where
Marie Antoinette wife of King Louis XVI of France slept.
* Golden represents the warmth of the sun, and because of this it
is the favorite color for painting kitchens because many feel that
having their breakfast and morning coffee in a golden kitchen gives
them the energy they need to start the day.
* Golden is a warm color that can both provide not only a bright and
cheerful feeling but also a somber, traditional, and religious aura.
Golden tends to go well with earth colors, but it can also enrich
a palette of red or burgundy.
Law
* The Lei Áurea (Golden Law), adopted on May 13, 1888, was the law
that abolished slavery in Brazil.
* The Golden Rule - do unto others as you would like done unto you.
Legends
* The capital city of Atlantis is said to have been called The City
of the Golden Gates. Because of this, (and because of the existence
of the Transamerica Pyramid, which is like the pyramid that is said
to have existed as one of the major structures in the City of the
Golden Gates.
Literature
* The Golden Ass by Lucius Apuleius, written in the second century
AD, is a classic satire of life in the Roman Empire
* The Golden Legend, compiled around the year 1260 by Jacopo da Varagine
is a collection of fanciful hagiographies or lives of the saints,
that became a late medieval bestseller.
* In the science fiction space opera the Lensman series heptalogy
by E.E. Smith, in Volume One of the series, the 1948 book Triplanetary,
the Golden Meteor is the insignia that was initially adoped as the
symbol of the Galactic Patrol. (It was later replaced by the Lens
of Arisia.)
* The Golden Apples of the Sun is a 1953 collection of thirty-two
of the most famous short stories by Ray Bradbury.
* The Golden Man is a 1954 science fiction short story by Philip K.
Dick. The story is set in a post-apocalyptic future, where the existence
of potentially powerful mutants has become a reality.
* The Golden Notebook is a 1962 novel by British Nobel Prize-winning
author Doris Lessing.
* Heart of Gold is a fictional starship in The Hitchhiker's Guide
to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams.
* In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows the Harry Potter polyjuice
potion turned "clear, bright gold".
Marriage
* The 50th wedding anniversary is called the Golden Anniversary and
one is expected to give gifts made of gold to a couple celebrating
that anniversary. By extension, the 50th anniversary of any important
event is called the golden jubilee.
Music
* A gold record is a recording that achieves sales of a million copies
or more.
* The song The Golden Road to Unlimited Devotion is one of the most
popular songs on the 1967 debut album of the Grateful Dead, The Grateful
Dead.
* Golden is an American rock band formed in 1993.
* The Gold Experience is an album released by Prince (his stage name
at that time being an unpronounceable symbol) on September 26, 1995.
* Golden Millennium was a glam rock revival supergroup formed in 1999.
* Golden (CD/DVD) is a 2004 album by the space rock group Failure.
Mythology
* In Greek mythology, Jason and the Argonauts sailed to Colchis to
find the golden fleece.
* King Midas, in Greek Mythology, was said to have the Midas touch,
i.e., the ability to turn everything into gold (the golden touch).
This ability became a curse for him after he turned his daughter to
gold, and he was cured by Dionysus.
Panelology
* Comic books published between 1938 (the first ones) and 1945 are
called Golden Age comic books.
* In Uncle Scrooge comic books, Scrooge McDuck searches throughout
the world and even outer space for gold and other treasures to further
increase his wealth. Paintings of Scrooge by Carl Barks often show
him with piles of golden money. In one Carl Barks story, The 24 Karat
Moon, Scrooge McDuck builds a rocket ship, travels to the asteroid
belt and finds an asteroid made of solid gold:
* The Golden Helmet is a Donald Duck comic strip story written by
Carl Barks in July 1952. Don Rosa wrote a sequel to The Golden Helmet,
called The Lost Charts of Columbus.
* Nova (Frankie Raye) is a fictional character colored golden sometimes
appearing in the Marvel Comics universe with the Silver Surfer.
Philosophy
* In the philosophy of Ancient Greece, the golden mean (moderation
in all things) was accepted as a basic tenet of most Greek philosophy.
Politics
* A king or queen's crown is usually gold.
* Golden Liberty was a form of aristocratic democracy practiced in
Poland from 1569 to 1795.
* The Golden Stool is the throne of the king of the Ashanti people
in Ghana.
Professions
* A person who attains notoriety at a young age in a their chosen
profession is called a golden boy or a golden girl.
Religion
* The color golden is associated with Buddhism:
- Statues of Buddha are usually painted metallic gold, are made of
the metal gold, or have gold plating.
- Theravada Buddhist monks wear saffron robes, a color close to golden.
- The Shwedagon Pagoda, also known as the Golden Pagoda, is a Buddhist
pagoda in Yangon, Burma that is plated in solid gold.
- The Golden Pavilion is a notable Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Kinki,
Japan.
* The Doctrine of the Golden Mean is a chapter in the Li Ji, one of
the Four Books of Confucianism.
* The Secret of the Golden Flower is an important religious text in
Daoism.
* The Golden Temple in Amritsar, Punjab, India, is the holiest site
of the Sikh religion.
* The Golden Mosque in Samarra, Iraq, a Shiite Muslim holy site constructed
in 944, was the target of the Golden Mosque bombing on 22 February
2006.
* The Golden Calf of the Old Testament, in Judaism and Christianity,
is generally thought to symbolically
represent the false worship of the god Mammon (i.e., wealth), instead
of the true God of the Bible, Jehovah.
* In Christianity
- Revelations describes after heaven and earth pass away a beautiful
city built for people that includes streets of Gold as one of its
unique features.
- Gold is frequently used as a sign of authority, rulers, and reverence.
- Items in the old testament in the temple where God's presence was
are covered in Gold indicating purity versus the outside items which
were bronze and other materials indicating sin and lack of purity.
- In Daniel the Medo-Perian empire is described as gold, it was the
first empire to cover the earth after the flood.
