Copper (color)

Copper is a reddish brown color that resembles the metal copper.

Copper
Crystallized copper metal is copper colored.
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#B87333
sRGB^B  (r, g, b)	(184, 115, 51)
CMYK^H   (c, m, y, k)	(0, 32, 72, 28)
HSV       (h, s, v)	(29°, 72%, 72%)
Source	/Maerz and Paul[1]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

The first recorded use of copper as a color name in English was in 1594.^[2]

Variations of copper

Pale copper

Copper (Crayola)
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#DA8A67
sRGB^B  (r, g, b)	(218, 138, 103)
CMYK^H   (c, m, y, k)	(15, 53, 62, 51)
HSV       (h, s, v)	(18°, 53%, 85%)
Source	Crayola
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

At right is displayed pale tone of copper that is called copper in Crayola crayons. This color was formulated by Crayola in 1903.

Copper red

Copper Red
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#CB6D51
sRGB^B  (r, g, b)	(203, 109, 81)
CMYK^H   (c, m, y, k)	(0, 46, 60, 20)
HSV       (h, s, v)	(14°, 60%, 80[3]%)
Source	ISCC-NBS
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

At right is displayed the color copper red.

The first recorded use of copper red as a color name in English was in 1590.^[4]

The source of this color is: ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955)--Color Sample of Copper Red (color sample #39)

Copper penny

Copper Penny
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#AD6F69
sRGB^B  (r, g, b)	(173, 111, 105)
CMYK^H   (c, m, y, k)	(0, 36, 39, 32)
HSV       (h, s, v)	(5°, 39%, 68[5]%)
Source	Crayola
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

At right is displayed the color copper penny.

Copper penny is one of the colors in the special set of metallic Crayola crayons called Silver Swirls, the colors of which were formulated by Crayola in 1990.

Copper rose

Copper rose
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#996666
sRGB^B  (r, g, b)	(153, 102, 102)
CMYK^H   (c, m, y, k)	(0, 33, 33, 40)
HSV       (h, s, v)	(0°, 33.3%, 60%)
Source
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

At right is displayed the color copper rose.

The first recorded use of copper rose as a color name in English was in 1928.^[6]

Copper in nature

Plants

• The copper-colored restrepia is an orchid native to Colombia.

Snakes

• Copperhead

Copper in culture

Ethnography

• Indigenous peoples of the Americas are sometimes described as being copper colored or copper-skinned.^[7]

Geography

• Arizona is known as the Copper State.
• The Copper River or Ahtna River (Ahtna Athabascan ‘Atna’tuu) is a 300-mile (480 km) river in south-central Alaska.
• Copper Country is an area in the northwestern Upper Peninsula of Michigan, an area which at one time was the world's greatest producer of copper.^[8]
• Copper City is a village in Houghton County, Michigan.
• Copperopolis is a census-designated place (CDP) in Calaveras County, California.
• Copper City is an unincorporated community in Glenn County, California.
• The Copper Canyon (Spanish: Barranca del Cobre) is a canyon system in the Sierra Tarahumara in the southwestern part of the state of Chihuahua in Mexico.
• The name of the island of Cyprus derives from kupros, the Greek word for copper, because of the historically abundant copper deposits there.

Heraldry

• Copper is used in heraldry as a metal tincture since the late 20th Century, so far mostly in Canada.

Kitchenware

• Copper kitchenware is popular, mostly because it is convenient because it heats up faster, but some like to collect it just because they like the color.

Marriage

• The 7th wedding anniversary is called the Copper Anniversary and one is expected to give gifts made of copper to a couple celebrating that anniversary. By extension, the 7th anniversary of any important event can be called the copper jubilee, although this term is seldom used.

Music

• In the song Maria Magenta on the 1973 album Cosmic Wheels, Donovan calls Maria Magenta my copper go-go girl.
• Copperhead is a name used by a number of different music bands.

Politics

• Copperheads were Northern Peace Democrats who opposed the American Civil War, wanting an immediate peace settlement.

Pre-History

• The Copper Age or Chalcolithic (Greek khalkos + lithos 'copper stone') period (also known as the Eneolithic (Aeneolithic)), is a phase in the development of human culture in which the use of early metal tools appeared alongside the use of stone tools.

Religion

• In Vajrayana Buddhism, it is said that in Nirvana, the pure land of the buddha Padmasambhava is located on the copper-colored mountain.^[9]

Role playing games

• In Dungeons & Dragons, the copper dragon is one of the metallic dragons.

See also

• List of colors

References

1. The color displayed in the color box above matches the color called copper in the 1930 book by Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill; the color copper is displayed on page 31 Plate 4, Color Sample I11.
2. Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 193; Color Sample of Copper: Page 31 Plate 4 Color Sample I11
3. web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code #CB6D51 (Copper Red):
4. Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 193
5. web.forrett.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code #AD6F69 (Copper Penny):
6. Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 193; Color Sample of Copper Rose: Page 33 Plate 5 Color Sample J5
7. See: Rand McNally’s World Atlas International Edition Chicago:1944 Rand McNally Map: "Races of Mankind" Pages 278-279--In the explanatory section below the map, the American Indian Race is described as being "copper-colored"
8. An Interior Ellis Island: Ethnic Diversity and the Peopling of Michigan’s Copper Country, Keweenaw Ethnic Groups. MTU Archives and Copper Country Historical Collection, J. Robert Van Pelt Library, Michigan Technological University.
9. Prophet, Elizabeth Clare and Prophet, Mark (as compiled by Annice Booth) The Masters and Their Retreats Corwin Springs, Montana:2003 Summit University Press--Padmasambhava Page 259