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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".

Of course 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's angle to the light source. This is why in

like real silver, as a matte gray color like that of the box 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.

1 Color Coordinates

Hex triplet = #C0C0C0
RGB (r, g, b) = (192, 192, 192)
CMYK (c, m, y, k) = (0, 0, 0, 63)
HSV (h, s, v) = (whateverYouLike, 0, 75)
HTML-example:
CSS-example: body { background-color:silver; }

2 See also

• List of colors