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Graham Mayor
 
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The last time this came up was a few years ago when the posted answer
included the following:

Here's a good reference to Gold (and Silver and Bronze) using CMYK:

http://www.creativepro.com/story/fea...l?origin=story

Translated to RGB in Corel Draw 10 gives you:

Gold = RGB 199 177 25 OR HLS 52 44 78

I have since used these figures quite satisfactorily in some of my own
documents.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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Shauna Kelly wrote:
Hi Suzanne

With 2 computers at home and several more at different work sites, I
remain astonished at how differently the same colour displays on
different monitors, and even on the same monitor in slightly
different lighting conditions.

And different colour printers will produce slightly different colours
from the same document, too.

But the best gold I've ever seen done just with ordinary screen
colours is in the vertical border at
http://www.helpmaster.com/index.htm. I think it's the shading that
provides the illusion of shine.

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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That looks kind of chartreuse on my screen. I would add more red, I
think (in fact, I have to run it all the way up to 255 to get
something that looks
"gold" to me).

I recently made a graphic that was supposed to be gold on red, and
the color
I used (in Publisher) was Accent 2 (Gold), which is 225, 204, 0).

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Words into Type
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"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
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While I agree with Suzanne that inkjets don't simulate "metallic"
colors very well, you can try the RGB combination R=217, G=217,
B=25. To enter this, click the More Colors item at the bottom of
the font color dropdown, click the Custom tab, and type the numbers
in the boxes.

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Jay Freedman
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On Sat, 7 May 2005 14:58:09 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
wrote:

You're unlikely to find a single color that will really much
resemble metallic gold, and since fonts in Word can't be formatted
with a gradient, you'll have to settle for a single color, which
will be a sort of orangey-yellow. There are only two ways that I
know of to get true metallic gold:

1. Use a desktop printer that takes a gold ink cartridge in place
of black. In this case, you set the type as black (Automatic) as
usual, but it comes out gold.

2. Ditto for a commercial printer. You set the copy in black, and
he prints it with gold ink.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"SSchwalbe" wrote in message
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I am writing up a 50th wedding invitation and would like the type
to be

in
gold. What combinations of colors should I try? I have a Lexmark
1150 printer.