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(Redirected from Old Gold (color)) Dark yellow or brownish color This article is about the color. For other uses, see Old gold (disambiguation).
Old gold
 
About these coordinates     Color coordinates
Hex triplet#CFB53B
sRGB (r, g, b)(207, 181, 59)
HSV (h, s, v)(49°, 71%, 81%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(74, 74, 72°)
Source/Maerz and Paul
ISCC–NBS descriptorStrong yellow
B: Normalized to (byte)

Old gold is a dark yellow, which varies from light olive or olive brown to deep or strong yellow, generally on the darker side of this range.

The first recorded use of old gold as a color name in English was in the early 19th century (exact year uncertain).

In culture

Politics

Sports

  • The first ever recorded use of Old Gold for a sports team was when it was adopted by the Purdue University football team in 1887
  • Old gold is used for some NFL teams: the New Orleans Saints and the San Francisco 49ers. The reason for its use by the Saints is that New Orleans is an old city with the heritage and architecture of regal Europe. The reason for its use by the 49ers is the close identification of San Francisco (indeed the very choice of the mascot name) with the California Gold Rush of 1849.
  • The home shirts worn by English football club Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. are traditionally old gold in colour.
  • The primary colors of the Purdue University Boilermakers, the Wake Forest University Demon Deacons, and the DePauw University Tigers are old gold and black.
  • The primary colors of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets are old gold and white.
  • Welsh football team Carmarthen Town A.F.C are known as the Old Gold (Hen Aur in Welsh) and play in old gold shirts.

Fraternities

  • Old gold is used as an official color by the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.
  • It is also used by the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity.

See also

References

  1. The color displayed in the color box above matches the color called "old gold" in the 1930 book by Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill; the color "old gold" is displayed on page 51, Plate 14, Color Sample K5.
  2. Maerz and Paul, A Dictionary of Color (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1930), page 200, Color Sample of Old Gold, Page 51, Plate 14, Color Sample K5
  3. "KERNOW". www.originalcornishtartans.uk.
  4. "Mebyon Kernow – The Party for Cornwall - Standing up for Cornwall". Mebyon Kernow – The Party for Cornwall.

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