Marigold (color)



Marigold is a yellow-orange color. It is named after the flower of the same name.

New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield used “marigold” describe a hair colour in her short story Something Childish But Very Natural  in 1914.

Gold
Gold, also called golden, is one of a variety of yellow-orange color blends used to give the impression of the color of the element gold.

The web color gold is sometimes referred to as golden 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".

Yellow-orange
Yellow-orange has been a Crayola crayon color since 1930.



Orange-yellow
Orange-yellow was a Crayola crayon color from 1958 to 1990.

Goldenrod
Displayed at right is the web color goldenrod.

The color goldenrod is a representation of the color of some of the deeper gold colored goldenrod flowers. The first recorded use of goldenrod as a color name in English was in 1915.