Mustard (color)
Mustard is a dull/dark yellow color that resembles culinary mustard. It is similar to the color Flax.
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A jar of mustard
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A plaster wall painted a dark shade of mustard called "baby mustard"
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Hex triplet | #FFDB58 |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (255, 219, 88) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (47°, 65.5%, 100%) |
Source | Maerz and Paul[1] |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Brilliant yellow |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
The first recorded use of mustard as a color name in English was in 1886.[2]
In culture
Board games
- In the board game Cluedo, one of the color-coded murder suspects is a yellow character named Colonel Mustard.
- Mustard is the color of the belt awarded to the winner of the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest at Nathan's Famous in Coney Island, New York.
- In the bandana code of the gay leather subculture, wearing a blue bandana means that one is a size queen.[3][4][5] However, the color called "mustard" in the bandana code is lighter than the mustard color shown above—it is not identical with the X11 color called goldenrod.
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See also
- List of colors
References
- The color displayed in the color box above matches the color called mustard in the 1930 book by Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill;the color mustard is displayed on page 45, Plate 11, Color Sample J4.
- Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 199; Color Sample of Mustard: Page 45 Plate 11 Color Sample J4
- Andrews, Vincent (2010), The Leatherboy Handbook, The Nazca Plains Corp., ISBN 978-1-61098-046-3
- Hankycode on gaycitiusa.com Archived 2007-12-06 at the Wayback Machine access date 2012-03-30
- Hankycode on leathernjonline.com access date 2010-03-30
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