Talk:Silver (color)

message: 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)
thread_title:  Silver is A Color (abstract) 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Unsourced trivia 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Silver isn't a colour 

message: 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)
replies: text: Who wrote:To make a rhyme with silverOr other "rhymeless" rhyme Takes nothing more than will, verbosity and time
 Doug butler (talk) 21:34, 7 February 2017 (UTC)

text: 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.--JohnBlackburnewordsdeeds 23:28, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rhyme 

message: 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)
thread_title:  A Color 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Possible removal from list