Maize (color) explained

Maize
Hex:	FBEC5D
Spelling:	color
Source:	Maerz and Paul^[1]
Isccname:	Brilliant greenish yellow

The shade maize or corn refers to a specific tone of yellow; it is named for the cereal of the same name—maize (called corn in the United States and Canada). In public usage, maize can be applied to a variety of shades, ranging from light yellow to a dark shade that borders on orange, since the color of maize (the actual corn) may vary.

The first recorded use of maize as a color name in English was in 1861.^[2]

Usage

Biology

• "Light maize in color, this wildflower is found only now and then in our area, and treasured for its rarity. The three clumps, two near the east fence under a thriving red-stemmed dogwood and one beside a weathered stump, gave us a thrill last spring with their first buds."^[3]

Chemistry

• "For slow cases, one can use the method... in which a solution of thymol blue has had its pH value adjusted so that it is maize in color and any slight increase in the acidity will make the solution turn blue."^[4]

Sports

• Maize is one of the two colors used by the University of Michigan Wolverines (the other being blue) although the actual shade of yellow used has varied over time; however, it always approaches the color of corn.^[5] The athletic colors of Carleton College are also maize and blue.

See also

• List of colors

Notes and References

1. The color displayed in the color box above matches the color called maize in the 1930 book by Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill; the color maize is displayed on page 43, Plate 10, Color Sample G5.
2. Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 198; Color Sample of Maize: Page 43 Plate 10 Color Sample G5
3. Book: Rodale, Jerome Irving. 1965. Organic gardening. Rodale Press. 54.
4. Book: Debler, Walter R.. 1990. Fluid Mechanics Fundamentals. registration. Prentice Hall. 978-0-13-322371-2. 615.
5. Web site: Liene Karels. What colors are maize and blue?. Michigan Today. Fall 1996. https://web.archive.org/web/19961220002822/http://www.umich.edu/~newsinfo/MT/96/Fall96/mta13f96.html. December 20, 1996. September 5, 2015.