Bronze (color)

This article is about the colour. For other uses, see Bronze (disambiguation).

Bronze is a metallic brown color which resembles the metal alloy bronze.

A bronze medal

Bronze
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#CD7F32
sRGBB (r, g, b)	(205, 127, 50)
HSV (h, s, v)	(30°, 76%, 80%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)	(60, 81, 39°)
Source	/Maerz and Paul[1]
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Strong orange
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Bronze statue of the Roman Emperor Augustus

The first recorded use of bronze as a color name in English was in 1753.^[2]

Variations

Blast-off bronze

Blast-Off Bronze
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#A57164
sRGBB (r, g, b)	(165, 113, 100)
HSV (h, s, v)	(12°, 39%, 65%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)	(53, 39, 24°)
Source	Crayola
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Light reddish brown
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Blast-off bronze is one of the colors in the special set of metallic Crayola crayons called Metallic FX, the colors of which were formulated by Crayola in 2001.

Crayola Metallic FX crayons. Blast-off bronze is the 5th crayon from the right.

Antique bronze

Antique Bronze
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#665D1E
sRGBB (r, g, b)	(102, 93, 30)
HSV (h, s, v)	(52°, 71%, 40%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)	(39, 37, 77°)
Source	ISCC-NBS
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Moderate olive
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

The first recorded use of antique bronze as a color name in English was in 1910.^[3]

Bronze statue of Hercules with green patina

References

1. The colour displayed in the colour box above matches the colour called bronze, in the 1930 book by Maerz and Paul, A Dictionary of Color, New York: 1930 McGraw-Hill; the colour bronze is displayed on page 51, Plate 14, Colour Sample L9.
2. Maerz and Paul, A Dictionary of Color, New York: 1930 McGraw-Hill, p. 191; Colour Sample of Bronze: p. 51, Plate 14, Colour Sample L9
3. Maerz and Paul, A Dictionary of Color, New York: 1930 McGraw-Hill; p. 189, Color Sample of Bronze: p. 51, Plate 14, Color Sample L10

See also

• Bronze and brass ornamental work
• List of colors