Silver (color)

:This page is about silver the color. For the element, see silver.

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Color - Element - Silver

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Silver is the metallic shade of the color gray closest to that of polished silver. In heraldry there is no distinction between silver and white, represented as "argent".

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Shade - Color - Gray - Silver - Heraldry - Argent

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The visual sensation usually associated with the metal silver

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is its metallic shine. This cannot be reproduced by a simple solid

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color, because the shiny effect is due to the material's brightness

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varying with the surface angle to the light source. Consequently in

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art one would normally use a metallic paint that glitters

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like real silver. A matte gray color like the swatch on this page

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would not be considered silver.

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Since version 3.2 of HTML "silver" is a name for one of the 16 basic-VGA-colors.

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HTML - VGA

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