Color Names

Gold Plate

Delicate, worn gold leaf, like the edge of a vintage picture frame.

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Gold Plate is a soft beige.

It can be described as soft, light, warm and pastel.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Gold Plate

Gold plating

Gold plating is a method of depositing a thin layer of gold onto the surface of another metal, most often copper or silver, by a chemical or electrochemical (electroplating) process. Plating refers to modern coating methods, such as the ones used in the electronics industry, whereas gilding is the decorative covering of an object with gold, which typically involve more traditional methods and much larger objects.

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Gold

Gold is a chemical element; its chemical symbol is Au and atomic number 79. In its pure form, it is a bright-metallic-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile metal. Chemically, gold is a transition metal, a group 11 element, and one of the noble metals. It is one of the least reactive chemical elements, being the second lowest in the reactivity series, with only platinum ranked as less reactive. Gold is solid under standard conditions.

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Gold (color)

Gold, also called golden, is a color tone resembling the chemical element gold.

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gold plate

Noun

  1. A thin layer of gold applied to the surface of an object, often by an electrolytic method.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see gold,‎ plate.

Verb

  1. To apply gold plate to an object, to plate with gold.
  2. Of a project, to incorporate costly or otherwise excessive features or refinements unnecessarily, to overengineer.
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