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Silver (color)
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.
Use examples
HTML-example: <body bgcolor="silver"> CSS-example: body { background-color:silver; }
See also
Last updated: 08-04-2005 18:46:00
10-26-2009 08:16:03
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