Mustard (color)

Mustard is a dull/dark yellow color that resembles culinary mustard. It is similar to the color Flax.

A jar of mustard

A plaster wall painted a dark shade of mustard called "baby mustard"

The first recorded use of mustard as a color name in English was in 1886.[2]

In culture

Board games

In the board game Cluedo, one of the color-coded murder suspects is a yellow character named Colonel Mustard.

Mustard is the color of the belt awarded to the winner of the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest at Nathan's Famous in Coney Island, New York.

In the bandana code of the gay leather subculture, wearing a blue bandana means that one is a size queen.[3][4][5] However, the color called "mustard" in the bandana code is lighter than the mustard color shown above—it is not identical with the X11 color called goldenrod.

The color displayed in the color box above matches the color called mustard in the 1930 book by Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill;the color mustard is displayed on page 45, Plate 11, Color Sample J4.
Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 199; Color Sample of Mustard: Page 45 Plate 11 Color Sample J4
Andrews, Vincent (2010), The Leatherboy Handbook, The Nazca Plains Corp., ISBN 978-1-61098-046-3
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