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Bronze is a metallic brown color which resembles the metal alloy bronze.
![A bronze medal](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Bronze_medal_for_bravery_%28Austria-Hungary%29.png/220px-Bronze_medal_for_bravery_%28Austria-Hungary%29.png)
The first recorded use of bronze as a color name in English was in 1753.[2]
Variations
Blast-off bronze
Blast-off bronze is one of the colors in the special set of metallic Crayola crayons called Metallic FX, the colors of which were formulated by Crayola in 2001.
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Crayonsmetal.png/220px-Crayonsmetal.png)
Antique bronze
The first recorded use of antique bronze as a color name in English was in 1910.[3]
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Hercules_Farnese_type_Louvre_Br652.jpg/170px-Hercules_Farnese_type_Louvre_Br652.jpg)
References
- ^ The colour displayed in the colour box above matches the colour called bronze, in the 1930 book by Maerz and Paul, A Dictionary of Color, New York: 1930 McGraw-Hill; the colour bronze is displayed on page 51, Plate 14, Colour Sample L9.
- ^ Maerz and Paul, A Dictionary of Color, New York: 1930 McGraw-Hill, p. 191; Colour Sample of Bronze: p. 51, Plate 14, Colour Sample L9
- ^ Maerz and Paul, A Dictionary of Color, New York: 1930 McGraw-Hill; p. 189, Color Sample of Bronze: p. 51, Plate 14, Color Sample L10
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