Color of the Day:

Metallic Gold#D4AF37

Metallic Gold - 08/13/1946

Metallic Gold is the Color of the Day for 08/13/1946. Metallic Gold has a hex value of #D4AF37. On the RGB scale it has values of Red: 212, Green: 175, and Blue: 55

Color Spaces of Metallic Gold

HexD4AF37#D4AF37
RGB212 175 55rgb(212 175 55)
RGB %83 69 22rgb(83 69 22)
CIELAB73.29, 5.13, 62.82
CMY17, 31, 78
CMYK0, 17, 74, 17
HSL46, 65, 52hsl(46 65% 52%)
HSV46, 74, 83hsv(46 74% 83%)
HSI47, 63, 147
HWB46, 22, 17hwb(46 22% 17%)
LCH73.29, 63.03, 85.33
XYZ45.76, 45.61, 7.81

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All About Metallic Gold

Metallic Gold is a rich and luxurious color that is reminiscent of the precious metal of the same name. It's a shiny and reflective color that can range from a bright, yellow-gold to a more muted, bronze-gold hue. Metallic Gold is a popular choice in fashion, interior design, and art for its ability to add glamour, elegance, and a touch of opulence to any setting.

Metallic Gold in Fashion

In fashion, Metallic Gold is often used in clothing items like dresses, skirts, and shoes, as well as in accessories like jewelry and handbags. It's a versatile color that works well with other metallic tones like silver and bronze, as well as with more bold colors like black and red. Metallic Gold-colored accessories and clothing are a great choice for creating a sophisticated and chic look that's both timeless and on-trend.

Metallic Gold in Interior Design

In interior design, Metallic Gold is a popular choice for creating a luxurious and sophisticated atmosphere. It pairs well with other warm tones like cream, beige, and brown, and can be used as a primary or accent color for furniture, fixtures, and accessories. Metallic Gold-colored lamps, picture frames, and candlesticks can add a touch of grandeur and glamour to any room, while also complementing a wide range of styles, from traditional to modern.

Metallic Gold in Art

In art, Metallic Gold can be used as a material for creating textured sculptures and mixed media pieces, as well as in painting and printmaking. It's a reflective and shiny color that can add dimension and visual interest to a piece, while also conveying a sense of luxury and grandeur. Metallic Gold is often used in abstract and contemporary art to add contrast and shine to the overall composition, as well as in traditional art forms like sculpture and decorative arts.

Closest Common Color

Metallic Gold is closest to the common color orange. Orange is considered a tertiary color that is a mixture of red and yellow. Orange is a color that we see in nature and we associate it with social interaction, warmth, and friendly conversation. This color shares its name with the citrus based fruit oranges. The comforting tones in the color orange have made it the number one choice to represent safety in the construction industry. Everyday things that we see in orange are carrots, pumpkins, traffic cones, and oranges.

Shades of Metallic Gold

A shade is a concept of darkening a color. Below you will find the shades of colors from Metallic Gold all the way to Black evenly distributed.

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Tints of Metallic Gold

A tint is a concept of lightening a color. Below you will find the tints of colors from Metallic Gold all the way to White evenly distributed.

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Tones of Metallic Gold

A tone is a concept of adding gray to a color. Below you will find the tones of colors from Metallic Gold all the way to Gray evenly distributed.

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Monochromatic Colors of Metallic Gold

A monochromatic color scheme is based on a single color and contains both shades and tints of that color. Below you will find a monochromatic color scheme based off of Metallic Gold.

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Complementary Color of Metallic Gold

Complementary colors are two colors that are the complete opposite of each other on the color wheel. Complementary colors are used by many including graphic designers, painters, and other artists. Knowing the complementary color for a given color is useful because using them together creates a visual contrast which can really make a design pop! Below you will find the complementary color of Metallic Gold.

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Split Complementary Colors of Metallic Gold

A Split Complementary color scheme is based on a single color and then finds the complementary color of the main color and uses that as a reference to find two colors to the left and right of that complementary color on the color wheel. A total of three colors make up a split complementary color scheme. A common example of a split complementary color scheme in an RGB Model is red, green-cyan, and blue-cyan. Below you will find a split complementary color scheme based off of Metallic Gold.

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Triadic Colors of Metallic Gold

A triadic color scheme is made up of three colors that are evenly spaced on the color wheel. In a traditional sense you start with one color to as the baseline and the two other colors serve as accent colors. On the color wheel this can be envisioned as a triangle. Below you will find a triadic color scheme based off of Metallic Gold.

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Tetradic Colors of Metallic Gold

A tetradic color scheme is made up of four colors that form a rectangle on the color wheel. This color harmony is also known as a double complementary color scheme becuase it is made up of two complementary color pairs. Below you will find a tetradic color scheme based off of Metallic Gold.

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Analogous Colors of Metallic Gold

An analogous color scheme is made up of three colors that are next to each other on the color wheel. In a traditional sense you start with a single color as the baseline, a second color, and an accent color or a mixture of the first two colors as the third color. Below you will find an analogous color scheme based off of Metallic Gold.

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Variations of Metallic Gold

A variation of a color is the idea of swapping the values of Red, Blue, and Green with one another to create a new color. The color Metallic Gold has RGB values of R:212, G:175, and B:55. Using this information, we can create the following 5 variations using RBG, GRB, GBR, BRG, and GBR. Out of the 5 possible variations of Metallic Gold, 5 of them will be unique without counting our orignal color of Metallic Gold.

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Web Safe Color of Metallic Gold

A web safe color is a color that will not be dithered when shown on a web browser that only has 256-color support. Although this is not much of an issue in modern browsers today it is important to understand the history. A web safe color will always appear as intended across any device/browser. There are 216 colors that are considered web safe. Below you will find the closest web safe color to Metallic Gold.

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CSS Code for Metallic Gold

Text Color
.text-class { color: #D4AF37; }

This paragraph tag has text in the color #D4AF37

Text Shadow Color
.txt-shdw-class { text-shadow: 2px 2px 2px #D4AF37; }

This text has a shadow in the color #D4AF37

Border Color
.brdr-class { border: 5px solid #D4AF37; }

This div tag has a border color of #D4AF37

Background Color
.bg-class { background-color: #D4AF37; }

This div tag has a background color of #D4AF37

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Metallic Gold Accessibility

When it comes to accessibility it is important to consider the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 issued by W3C. The WCAG provides a set of standards to determine if two colors have an appropriate contrast ratio in order to be readable on a web. This is achieved by measuring luminance, also known as brightness, between the color of your text and the background color. The WCAG has several levels of conformance: (A - Lowest, AA - Mid Range, AAA - Highest). If you meet the requirements of a higher range of conformance then you automatically meet the lower levels. For Example, if you meet AAA then by default you also meet AA and A. The contrast ratios that need to be met also consider the size of the font. Below are the contrast ratios needed to be compliant.

  • Level AA (large text/18-point font): 3:1
  • Level AA: 4.5:1
  • Level AAA (large text/18-point font): 4.5:1
  • Level AAA: 7:1

In the following sections we take a look at conformance levels AA and AAA for both large sized text and normal sized text. We took care of all the calculations so you will be able to see right away whether or not a text color of Metallic Gold is readable according to the WCAG against both Black and White backgrounds.

Metallic Gold Contrast on Black Background

The color Metallic Gold has passed 4 out of 4 WCAG tests against a Black background. This means there is a 100% accessibility rating and therefore makes Metallic Gold a perfect choice against a Black background.

WCAG AALarge TextPass
WCAG AANormal TextPass
WCAG AAALarge TextPass
WCAG AAANormal TextPass

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Metallic Gold Contrast on White Background

The color Metallic Gold has passed 0 out of 4 WCAG tests against a White background. This means there is a 0% accessibility rating and therefore makes Metallic Gold a poor choice against a White background.

WCAG AALarge TextFail
WCAG AANormal TextFail
WCAG AAALarge TextFail
WCAG AAANormal TextFail

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