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The colour orange occurs between red and yellow in the visible spectrum at a wavelength of about 585 – 620 nm, and has a hue of 30° in HSV colour space. The complementary colour of orange is azure, a slightly greenish blue. With pigments such as paints or inks, a mixture of the subtractive primary colours in the proportion of 75% yellow and 25% magenta produce the secondary colour orange. Orange pigments are largely in the ochre or cadmium families, and absorb mostly blue light.

Orange (colour wheel)

At above right is the colour wheel colour orange. This is the colour orange as defined in HSV colour space; that is, it's the hue midway between red and yellow. It is numerically halfway between red and yellow in a gamma-compressed RGB colour space, and is diametrically opposite azure, on the HSV colour wheel.

Etymology of orange

orange fruit, introduced to Europe via the Indo-European word nāranja. Before this was introduced to the English-speaking world, the colour was referred to (in Old English) as geoluhread, which translates into Modern English as yellow-red.
   The first recorded use of orange as a colour name in English was in 1512, in the court of King Henry VIII.

Orange web colours

Orange (web colour):A Web colour orange, defined as FFA500, is the only named colour defined in CSS that isn't also defined in HTML 4.01

Dark orange (web colour): The web colour called dark orange is displayed at right.

Additional variations on the colour orange

Orange peel: Displayed at right is the actual colour of the outer skin of a typical orange. This colour is called orange peel. It is the same colour as the fruit for which it was named. In contrast to blue or red, this colour is well determined. » The first recorded use of orange peel as a colour name in English was in 1839. A discussion of the difference between the colours orange and orange peel is given in Maerz and Paul.

Tangerine: » At right is the colour tangerine, a shade of orange that's the colour of the tangerine fruit. The first recorded use of tangerine as a colour name in English was in 1899.

Carrot orange:A tint of orange that's the colour of the raw carrot]] vegetable. The first recorded use of carrot orange as a colour name in English was in 1684.

Burnt orange:Burnt orange has been in use as a colour name for this deep shade of orange since 1915. » Burnt orange was popular in interior design in the 1970s. So-called redheads actually have hair that averages a burnt orange colour.

» This colour is one variation that's used as a school colour of the Clemson University, Virginia Tech, Auburn University, and The University of Texas at Austin.

Brown: » Brown is actually derived from the orange part (orange + grey) of the colour spectrum. It can be described as dark orange. The first recorded use of brown as a colour name in English was in 1000.

Orange symbology

Politically

  • The colour orange is used in a campaign to highlight the violations of the human rights in China on the occasion of the 2008 Summer Olympics. (External Link)

    Philosophical

  • In the metaphysics of the New Age Prophetess, Alice A. Bailey, in her system called the Seven Rays which classifies humans into seven different metaphysical personality types, the fifth ray of concrete science is represented by the colour orange. People who have this metaphysical personality type are said to be on the Orange Ray.
  • Orange is used to symbolically represent the second (Swadhisthana) chakra.
  • Psychics who claim to be able to observe the aura with their third eye report that an orange aura is associated with intellectual ambition.
  • Orange in general represents Hinduism in the flags of India and Sri Lanka. Hindu gurus usually wear orange robes. In actuality, the specific shade of orange that represents Hinduism on the Indian National Flag is officially called deep saffron.

    Social

  • In English heraldry, orange is considered synonymous with the tincture tenne. However, its use as a heraldic tincture is relatively rare, as it's considered a "stain" (a deprecated tincture) by some. In continental heraldry, tenne is more often deemed to denote a burnt orange colour.
  • The colours orange and black represent the holiday Halloween (31 October) because orange is the colour of pumpkins and black is the colour of night and is associated with doom, despair and darkness.
  • The colours orange and brown represent the United States holiday Thanksgiving.
  • Orange is the favourite colour for people to wear to rave dances.

    Sport

  • Orange is (usually) the colour of the Netherlands national football team and all other Dutch national teams and athletes.
  • Orange is also the colour of the Ivory Coast national football team.
  • In American collegiate athletics, orange is combined with other colours to form the colours for:
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  • The Orange is the name of several sports teams at Syracuse University, in addition to being the university's colour.
  • American professional teams that use orange as a primary colour include the Baltimore Orioles, San Francisco Giants and New York Mets of Major League Baseball, the Chicago Bears, Cleveland Browns, Cincinnati Bengals, Denver Broncos, and Miami Dolphins of the National Football League, the New York Knicks, the Phoenix Suns and the Charlotte Bobcats of the National Basketball Association and the Philadelphia Flyers and New York Islanders of the National Hockey League.
  • Orange is the colour of the second equipation of Valencia CF (Spain). The Land of Valencia has oranges as a traditional produce.
  • Orange is the colour of Blackpool FC in England
  • Orange is also the colour of J-league football team, Omiya Ardija and baseball team Yomiuri Giants.
  • Finnish SM-Liiga ice-hockey team Tappara is famous for unusual orange hockey pants.
  • Orange is the traditional and most common colour of a Basketball.
  • Orange is the colour of the 5-ball and 13-ball in Billiards. (The 13-ball is white with an orange stripe.)
  • Orange is the colour of the ball in Snooker Plus with an 8-point value.

    Commercially

    Linguistically

  • People whose natural hair colour is metaphorically described in English as being red, for example redheads, actually have hair that averages a burnt orange colour.
  • Orange is often quoted (along with Purple and Silver (color)) as a word that doesn't rhyme with any other word in the English language. This is debatable - see Orange (word)#Rhyme. However, the Oxford Rhyming Dictionary does show both these words as having half-rhymes (such as lozenge with orange and salver with silver).
    In a children's book of verse, in a poem titled "Color," there are these lines: » :What is red? a poppy's red, in its barley bed.


       :What is orange? Why, an orange--just an orange!

    Academia

  • In the United States and Canada, orange regalia is associated with the field of engineering.

    Geography and history

  • Orange is the national colour of The Netherlands, because its royal family of Orange-Nassau used to own the principality of Orange (the title is still used for the Dutch heir apparent). There is no etymological connection between orange (the fruit and colour) and Orange (the name of the principality), and the similarity is fortuitous.(See the page on Orange (word) for more information.) Orange is the colour of choice for many of the national sports teams and their supporters. The nickname of the Dutch national football team is Oranje, the Dutch word for orange. In the modern flag of the Netherlands, red substitutes the original orange, but on royal birthdays, the flag has an additional orange banner. Most geographical usages of the word orange can be traced back to Dutch maritime power in the 17th century.
  • In Ireland the use of orange dates from the reign of William of Orange, the Protestant English king (1689-1702) and a Dutch stadholder.Further Information

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