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".
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 angle to the light source. Consequently in
art one would normally use a metallic paint that glitters
like real silver. A matte gray color like the swatch 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.
Use examples
HTML-example: <body bgcolor="silver">
CSS-example: body { background-color:silver; }
See also
Last updated: 08-04-2005 18:46:00
