Orange (colour)
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See also Orange (disambiguation) for other meanings of the word.
The colour orange occurs between red and yellow in the visible spectrum at a wavelength of about 620-585 nanometres. It is the same colour as the fruit from which it gets its name.
Oft-cursed word of poets, having no rhyming partner in English until the advent of quorange (though door-hinge is a close approximation). "Grorange" (a colour of slime made by mixing orange and green slime) did appear in one novelization of the Super Mario Brothers Nintendo games. Since "orange" refers to a species of plant, anyone could hypothetically coin a new rhyme by creating a new hybrid with an orange and another species of citrus fruit and naming it (for example, a hybrid of a kumquat and an orange could be called a "korange"). "Rhymes with Orange", in reference to this famous unrhymeability, has been used as the name of a comic strip.
On a browser that supports visual formatting in Cascading Style Sheets, the following box should appear in this colour:
With natural colouring materials such as paints or crayons, orange can be derived from primary colours by mixing red and yellow.
Its contrasting colour is blue.
- Orange signifies Protestantism in Northern Ireland
- Orange is the party colour of the People First Party on Taiwan
Brown is a degraded form of orange.
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Orange_(colour)" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(colour), used under the GNU Free Documentation License
