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Silver (color)

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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".

The visual sensation usually associated with the metal silver is its metallic shine. This cannot be reproduced by a simple solid color, because the shiny effect is due to the material's brightness varying with the surface angle to the light source. Consequently in art one would normally use a metallic paint that glitters like real silver. A matte gray color like the swatch on this page would not be considered silver.

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

Color Coordinates

Hex triplet = #C0C0C0
RGB (r, g, b) = (192, 192, 192)
CMYK (c, m, y, k) = (0, 0, 0, 63)
HSV (h, s, v) = (whateverYouLike, 0, 75)
HTML-example: <body bgcolor="silver">
CSS-example: body { background-color:silver; }

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