Maize (color)

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title: "Maize (color)" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public description: "Color" topic_path: "uncategorized" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maize_(color)" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Color ::

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Field	Value
title	Maize
image	Cornheap.jpg
caption	The color is named for the cereal Maize
hex	ffcb05
spelling	color
source	Maerz and Paul
isccname	Brilliant greenish yellow
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|title=Maize |image=Cornheap.jpg |caption=The color is named for the cereal Maize |hex=ffcb05 |spelling=color |source=Maerz and Paul |isccname=Brilliant greenish yellow}}

|title=Corn |image=VegCorn.jpg |caption=Sweet corn |hex=fbec5d |spelling=color |source=ColorHexa |isccname=}}

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.

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." 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." Sports
• Maize is one of the two colors used by the University of Michigan Wolverines, the other being blue. While the actual shade of yellow used has varied over time, it always approaches the color of corn. The athletic colors of Carleton College are also maize and blue.

References

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. "Corn / #fbec5d hex color".
3. Maerz, Aloys John. (1930). "A Dictionary of Color". [[McGraw-Hill]].
4. Rodale, Jerome Irving. (1965). "Organic Gardening". Rodale Press.
5. Debler, Walter R.. (1990). "Fluid Mechanics Fundamentals". Prentice Hall.
6. Karels. (Fall 1996). "What colors are maize and blue?".

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