Old gold

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Old gold is a dark yellow, which varies from light olive or olive brown to deep or strong yellow, generally on the darker side of this range.

The first recorded use of old gold as a color name in English was in the early 19th century (exact year uncertain).^[1]

In culture

Old gold is used as a political color by Mebyon Kernow, a Cornish nationalist party. The color is derived from Cornish kilts and tartans.^[2]^[3]

The first ever recorded use of Old Gold for a sports team was when it was adopted by the Purdue University football team in 1887
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The home shirts worn by English football club Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C. are traditionally old gold in colour.
The primary colors of the Purdue University Boilermakers, the Wake Forest University Demon Deacons, and the DePauw University Tigers are old gold and black.
The primary colors of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets are old gold and white.
Welsh football team Carmarthen Town A.F.C are known as the Old Gold (Hen Aur in Welsh) and play in old gold shirts.

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↑ Maerz and Paul, A Dictionary of Color (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1930), page 200, Color Sample of Old Gold, Page 51, Plate 14, Color Sample K5
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