History Main / GoldIsYellow

In real life, [[gold:gold]] has an earthy yellow tone. While there are a wide range of different varieties of the color gold, most are unsaturated tones of yellow and orange-yellow, and there are a variety of colors of gold depending on the alloy added such as white (in various alloys, including with nickel, nickel and zinc, nickel, zinc, and copper, or silver and palladium), green (silver; actually more of a greenish/yellow - electrum is a form of "green" gold), rose/pink (typically copper and silver), and red (copper only). But in fiction, it's not always that way.

In real life, [[gold:gold]] has an earthy yellow tone. While there are a wide range of different varieties of the color gold, most are unsaturated tones of yellow and orange-yellow, and there are a variety of colors of gold depending on the alloy added such as white (either silver and palladium or various combinations of nickel, zinc, and sometimes small amounts of copper), green (silver; actually more of a greenish/yellow - electrum is a form of "green" gold), rose/pink (typically copper and silver), and red (copper only). But in fiction, it's not always that way.

In real life, [[gold:gold]] has an earthy yellow tone. While there are a wide range of different varieties of the color gold, most are unsaturated tones of yellow and orange-yellow, and there are a variety of colors of gold depending on the alloy added such as white (either silver and palladium or various combinations of nickel. zinc, and sometimes small amounts of copper), green (silver; actually more of a greenish/yellow - electrum is a form of "green" gold), rose/pink (typically copper and silver), and red (copper only). But in fiction, it's not always that way.

In real life, [[gold:gold]] has an earthy yellow tone. While there are a wide range of different varieties of the color gold, most are unsaturated tones of yellow and orange-yellow, and there are a variety of colors of gold depending on the alloy added such as silver (for white gold or electrum) or copper (for rose gold). But in fiction, it's not always that way.

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* In medieval heraldry, noble houses use gold in lieu of yellow as it's considered a "metal" tincture.

* ''VideoGame/SlyCooper'': All the gold coins the player collects are yellow in appearance.

* ''Videogame/DiabloIII'': Zigzagged. Gold coins are bright yellow, but in Greed's realm, where almost everything is plated with gold, the trimmings have more realistic tones.

* ''WesternAnimation/Thundercats1985'': In the episode "All That Glitters", the gold is yellow-brown in small amounts, and unsaturated yellow in large amounts. But when the focus is on a golden object, it, well, glitters, very unrealistically. None of the gold was very well refined; it was considered waste from refining Thundrillium.

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* The English word "gold" is derived from a proto-Germanic word for "yellow". In modern German "Gold" has cognate spelling with the English word "gold" (pronounced "gould" in English, but "golt" in German) and "yellow" is "gelb" while "money" is "Geld".

* While Australia's official flag is based on the Union Jack, in blue, white & red, the nations sporting teams have historically used green & gold as their colour scheme, although the gold was usually actually yellow. One example of this the "Boxing Kangaroo" flag, most often associated with sports teams. The design was created in 1983 as part of the America's Cup Yacht Race, which the Australian entry won. Creator/BillyBirmingham remarked in one of his humorous comedy recordings:
-->'''Tony Grieg''': The Aussies looking very smart in their Canary Yellow here.
-->'''Bill Lawry''': Canary Yellow? That's Australian Gold my friend, and don't you fucking forget it!

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* ''Anime/CControl'': Taketazaki has a whole mouth of [[GoldTooth gold teeth]], depicted with a dull brown color and reflections of light being a faint yellow color.

** ''WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado'': While the golden objects tends to be in the yellow range, it's a muted yellow and not all that shiny, with a light reflectiveness consistent with real world gold. The gold head Chel was stealing has a yellow face, while the back of the head is yellow-brown.

* The "official" Anarcho-Capitalism [[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Anarcho-capitalism.svg flag]] is half yellow and half black, yellow representing liberty and the return of precious metal-backed currency that most directly advocate.

* The "official" anarcho-capitalist [[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Anarcho-capitalism.svg flag]] is half yellow and half black, yellow representing the importance of wealth and the return of precious metal-based currency that most directly advocate.

-->--'''LetsPlay/{{Robbaz}}''', ''[[https://youtu.be/qEY3RbpgEzE My Summer Car - Finland Simulator #19 - House Fire]]''