What color is excellence?

A plurality say excellence is yellow.
Click a color to add your vote.

“Gold star, medal, trophy—you name it. Excellence is winning, and winning is yellow.”
“Yellow is very close to gold which is what you get when you win.”
“Gold star.”
“The shine of brilliance.”
“Yellow is for a gold medal or a star of approval on a test.”
“‘Excellence’ sounds similar to ‘excited’, which is yellow.”
“It is the color of a gold medal, which is usually associated with 1st place.”
“If you’re excellent you might be given a gold star.”
“Excellence is perfection, the prime of a person, proud and shining like gold, like yellow.”
“You get gold trophies when you’re excellent at something.”
“It’s the color a gold medal.”
“When I think of the word ‘excellence,’ I think of gold stars.”
“Go for the gold.”
“Gold. First place. Being a winner.”
“Gold medal.”

“Because when someone gets something right, it is usually marked with a green check! Like the emoji.”
“It made me think of MS Excel, which is green.”
“Green is the equivalent to anything good.”
“Well, green stand for correct, so I thought that it would be the right fit.”
“Excellence is usually known for being good, and good usually also goes with check marks, and check marks are usually green. ”
“Green is the colour for good or correct! (I mark in green pen.)”

“You want to reach the sky!”
“Blue feels like the most ‘perfect’ colour. It makes me think of intelligence and success. ”
“1st-place ribbon.”
“It’s a prestigious color.”
“Excellence is the color blue because it evokes clarity, depth, and boundless ambition—like a sky with no limits.”

“Purple is noble and noble is excellent.”
“Excellence reminds me of royalty. In old civilizations the color purple was considered something only royalty could afford due to it’s rare appearance in nature.”
“It’s elegant.”
“Your Excellence was a way to address royalty, and royalty is purple.”
“Purple is royalty.”