Gold is – it's an orangeish yellow. I think what you're meaning is that when people say "gold", they usually are referring to the material properties of the metal as well. But the actual color does have a spectral hue. Magenta on the other hand, (including shades of pink that fall under magenta) is not a spectral color, and is just how our brain interprets the combination of signals from our red and blue cones.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Right. If you took a picture of a piece of gold and either sampled a point or blurred it together to one color, it wouldn't look like gold any more.

[–] moonlight@fedia.io 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I'm not quite sure what you mean. If you took a picture of an orange and sampled a pixel from it, it wouldn't look like an orange (fruit) any more, but it would look orange (color). Likewise sampling a pixel from a picture of a piece of gold wouldn't look like gold (metal), but it would still be gold (color).

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

It would just be yellow

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee -1 points 4 days ago

https://www.w3.org/wiki/CSS/Properties/color/keywords

Gold just looks like a dull yellow out of context.

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I’ve always wondered why no one ever seems to mention that there’s no such thing as brown light.

[–] BT_7274@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It’s orange. Brown is just really dark orange.

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

It could be a very dark red or yellow as well