Talk:Silver (color)

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Silver is A Color (abstract)

An analog guy's method to draw silver through illustrative production. Principle lies natural following of white sourcing yellow reflecting from the metal into shading of black to reveal the cooling indigo; blue from white. Without live effects, to illustrate an effect of 'blue-grey' or 'grayish-blue' as 'police force blue' or gendarme blue example relating 'sky-blue' philosophically. Relationship with the color gold. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.155.143.194 (talk) 23:48, 27 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Unsourced trivia

Most of this is unsourced trivia, which anyway belongs at silver rather than here. People name things after the metal, not the color. --jacobolus (t) 18:29, 19 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Silver isn't a colour

What colour is a mirror? Mirrors are usually made of glass with a silver coating and it is the silver that we see taking on the colours of what it reflects, with no colour of its own. Objects show colour when viewed in light by virtue of selective absorbtion and relection of different light wavelengths, visible ones corresponding to colours. It an object relects only blue wavelengths it will appear (guess what?) blue. Silver isnt a colour! A photographer can take a photo of a silver dish and a painter can paint a silver dish and it will be what he sees, but he doesnt use silver paint because it wont look like the object! Try photocopying a a blue sheet (colour blue) and then try photocopying a mirror ("colour" silver??).

The same applied to other metals such as aluminium, which is looks different to silver because it relects and absorbs the spectrum of visible light wavelengths in a slightly different way. Gold has its yellowish appearance because though highly reflective, it absorbs wavelengths at the blue end of the spectrum, and reflects at the yellow/red end.

Enough said.

P0mbal (talk) 23:29, 13 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think it would be more correct to called silver a state of tinted-grey than a color. This make me ponder, if there is such a thing called effect, because if tint is a natural derived property from chromic phenomenon than there is no such thing called special effects. They are just states of colors, where each color inherited a different property depending on the thing they are expose to. To be more confusing, I wonder is the visual texture of an object is derived from. --75.154.186.241 (talk) 01:19, 27 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Silver is not soposed to be such gray. Silver is the color of mirror. But I know, mirror has no color. 192.116.88.44 (talk) 10:24, 4 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The term "silver" is commonly used to describe a reflective shade of metallic grey, such as paint for cars described as "metallic silver". Despite the precise technical arguments, we must recognise and accept the way words are actually and commonly used. Darkman101 (talk) 16:22, 7 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Rhyme

The sentence "Like orange and purple, silver has no common rhyme.[2]" is pointless, meaningless and should be removed. This is similar to the Trivia sections that have mostly been removed from wikipedia articles. If you look in the reference it is shown that it does have a perfect rhyme and while it is obscure and therefore not common, it is still a rhyme that makes this a misleading sentence. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Iddillian (talk • contribs) 20:15, 2 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Who wrote:

To make a rhyme with silver
Or other "rhymeless" rhyme
Takes nothing more than will,
verbosity and time

Doug butler (talk) 21:34, 7 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Removed it, as trivia of no relevance, not properly sourced and very likely wrong – English is not a language you can reliably make such statements in. Can’t be bothered to check the WP article masquerading as a source,but it had chilver in a hidden comment and there could be more.--JohnBlackburne^words_deeds 23:28, 7 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

A Color

A color to tie off-white by theory, however there is an element in blue to character by gray if conversely seen a yellowish brown. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.44.178.78 (talk) 23:46, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Possible removal from list

Entries in List of colors: A–F contained links to this page.

The entries are :

Chinese silver
Dark silver

Entries in List of colors: G–M contained links to this page.

The entries are :

Light silver
Metallic silver

An entry in List of colors: N–Z contained a link to this page.

The entry is :

Philippine silver

I don't see any evidence that these colors are discussed in this article and plan to delete them from the list per this discussion: Talk:List_of_colors#New_approach_to_review_of_entries

If someone decides that these colors should have a section in this article and it is added, I would appreciate a ping.--S Philbrick (Talk) 12:50, 2 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]