Marigold (color)

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Marigold
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#EAA221
sRGBB (r, g, b)	(234, 162, 33)
HSV (h, s, v)	(39°, 86%, 92%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)	(72, 91, 49°)
Source	ISCC-NBS
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Strong orange yellow
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

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.^{[citation needed]}