Harvest gold

For the Australian 1945 film, see Harvest Gold. For the Indian food company, see Harvest Gold India.

Harvest gold
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#E6A817
sRGB^B (r, g, b)	(230, 168, 23)
HSV (h, s, v)	(42°, 90%, 90%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)	(73, 89, 55°)
Source	^[Unsourced]
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Strong orange yellow
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Harvest gold is a shade of orange and yellow. The first recorded use of harvest as a color name in English was in 1923.^[1] It was popular with kitchen and other appliances during the 1970s,^[2][3] along with brown, burnt orange, and avocado green.^[4][5]

References

1. Maerz, Aloys John; Paul, Morris Rea (1930). A Dictionary of Color. New York: McGraw-Hill. p. 196. Color Sample of Harvest: Page 47 Plate 12 Color Sample H9
2. Leatrice Eiseman; Keith Recker (2011). Pantone: The Twentieth Century in Color. Chronicle Books. p. 139. ISBN 978-1-4521-1313-5.
3. Steven Bleicher (2011). Contemporary Color: Theory and Use. Cengage Learning. p. 21. ISBN 978-1-111-53891-0.
4. National Kitchen and Bath Association (2013). Kitchen Planning: Guidelines, Codes, Standards. John Wiley & Sons. p. 19. ISBN 978-1-118-36762-9. The 1970s [...] Colors such as coppertone brown, burnt orange, avocado green, and harvest gold were all the rage.
5. Stonebach, Diane (1994). Kitchen Collectibles. Wallace-Homestead. p. 158. ISBN 978-0-87069-668-8. By 1971, the electric unit pictured was available in harvest gold, burnt orange and avocado, which were popular colors at the time.