Harvest gold is a shade of orange and yellow. The first recorded use of harvest as a color name in
English was in 1923.[1] It was popular with
kitchen and other appliances during the 1970s,[2][3] along with brown,
burnt orange, and
avocado green.[4][5]
References
^Maerz, Aloys John; Paul, Morris Rea (1930). A Dictionary of Color. New York: McGraw-Hill. p. 196. Color Sample of Harvest: Page 47 Plate 12 Color Sample H9
^Leatrice Eiseman; Keith Recker (2011). Pantone: The Twentieth Century in Color. Chronicle Books. p. 139.
ISBN978-1-4521-1313-5.
^Steven Bleicher (2011). Contemporary Color: Theory and Use. Cengage Learning. p. 21.
ISBN978-1-111-53891-0.
^Stonebach, Diane (1994).
Kitchen Collectibles. Wallace-Homestead. p. 158.
ISBN978-0-87069-668-8. By 1971, the electric unit pictured was available in harvest gold, burnt orange and avocado, which were popular colors at the time.