This colour was standardised in 1934. It is one of the oldest existing colour names : M. & P. quote 700A.D. as the earliest known record.
The colour here shown is a general representation of many grass samples submitted by textile and other colour using industries.
A color standardised in 1934 see also Adam gold and white gold.
There is considerable confusion with regard to this colour, and a great many variations have been featured under this name.
It is probably owing to its being a metal that we see so many variations, inasmuch as the slightest change in the angle at which a piece of gold is seen will give a different colour sensation.
Moreover, the association of the two words Gold and Yellow is so close that the average mind instinctively connects the two.
A piece of gold having no reflected light would be near to Old Gold. B.C.S No. 115, but if illuminated it would become the colour here given.
An old colour name dating back to the 17th Century.
The colour represents the average of a number of samples submitted by textile and other colour using industries.
Introduced into the seasonal ranges in 1943.
