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What combination of colors will produce gold type?
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. |
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Answer: What combination of colors will produce gold type?
To produce gold type, you can try using a combination of yellow and brown or yellow and orange. Here are the steps you can follow in Microsoft Word:
Note that the final result may vary depending on your printer and the paper you use. It's always a good idea to do a test print before printing a large batch of invitations.
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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. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "SSchwalbe" wrote in message ... 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. |
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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. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org 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. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "SSchwalbe" wrote in message ... 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. |
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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). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... 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. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org 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. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "SSchwalbe" wrote in message ... 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. |
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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 ... 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). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... 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. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org 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. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "SSchwalbe" wrote in message ... 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. |
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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. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org 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 ... 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). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... 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. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org 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. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "SSchwalbe" wrote in message ... 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. |
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And even if you had a gold printer cartridge, it would be difficult to =
have a printed gold cup or coin look "real". Metals just reflect light differently than other surfaces... much like a = mirror: http://home.eol.ca/~props/metall.htm http://www.geocities.com/~jlhagan/ad...goldsilver.htm Regards, Klaus "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: =20 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. =20 2. Ditto for a commercial printer. You set the copy in black, and he = prints it with gold ink. =20 --=20 Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the = newsgroup so all may benefit. =20 "SSchwalbe" wrote in message ... 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. |
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That is indeed very nice. Unfortunately, as I pointed out, ordinary text
type in Word doesn't permit shading. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Shauna Kelly" wrote in message ... 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 ... 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). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... 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. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org 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. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "SSchwalbe" wrote in message ... 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. |