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SPAMCAPITAL: Orange

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.

 

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complementary colour of orange is azure, a slightly greenish blue.

 

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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.

 

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Orange pigments are largely in the ochre or cadmium families, and absorb mostly blue light.

 

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Orange (colour wheel)

 

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At above right is the colour wheel colour orange.

 

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This is the colour orange as defined in HSV colour space; that is, it is the hue midway between red and yellow.

 

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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.

 

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Etymology of orange

 

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Main article: Orange (word)

 

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The colour is named after the 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.

 

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The first recorded use of orange as a colour name in English was in 1512,[1] in the court of King Henry VIII.

 

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— Commonly represents —

 

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desire,

 

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flamboyance,

 

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fire,

 

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warning

 

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— Colour coordinates —

 

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Hex triplet #FF7F00

 

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B (r, g, b) (255, 127, 0)