What combination of colors will produce gold type?

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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.
 
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.

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SSchwalbe said:
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
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printer.
 
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.
 
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).

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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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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
 
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/feature/11292.html?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.

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That is indeed very nice. Unfortunately, as I pointed out, ordinary text
type in Word doesn't permit shading.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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