Maize (color)

Maize (#FBEC5D)

Cereal maize the color is named for.

The color maize or corn refers to a shade of yellow; it is named for the cereal of the same name—maize (the cereal maize is called corn in the Americas). In public usage, maize can be applied to a variety of shades, ranging from light yellow to a dark shade that borders on orange, since the color of maize may vary.

The first recorded use of maize as a color name in English was in 1861. ^[1]

Maize in human culture

Biology

• "Light maize in color, this wildflower is found only now and then in our area, and treasured for its rarity. The three clumps, two near the east fence under a thriving red-stemmed dogwood and one beside a weathered stump, gave us a thrill last spring with their first buds."^[2]

Chemistry

• "For slow cases, one can use the method... in which a solution of thymol blue has had its pH value adjusted so that it is maize in color and any slight increase in the acidity will make the solution turn blue."^[3]

Sports

• Maize is one of the two colors used by the University of Michigan Wolverines (the other being blue) although the actual shade of yellow used has varied over time; however, it always approaches the color of corn.^[4]

See also

• List of colors

References

1. ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 198; Color Sample of Maize: Page 43 Plate 10 Color Sample G5
2. ^ Rodale, Jerome Irving (1965). Organic gardening. Rodale Press. p. 54. 
3. ^ Debler, Walter R. (1990). Fluid Mechanics Fundamentals. Prentice Hall. p. 615. ISBN 9780133223712. 
4. ^ Liene Karels (Fall 1996). "What colors are maize and blue?". Michigan Today. http://www.umich.edu/~newsinfo/MT/96/Fall96/mta13f96.html. Retrieved 2009-01-16.