Orange (colour)

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 to which it gives 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.

The RGB coordinates of orange, defining it as equal amounts of red (255 0 128) and yellow (255 255 0) is 255 83 0.

• Orange signifies Protestantism in Northern Ireland

• Orange is the party colour of the People First Party on Taiwan

Variations of the colour orange

Brown is actually on the orange part of the colour spectrum.

Burnt orange is one variation that is used as a school colour of The University of Texas at Austin. Here is a sample of burnt orange:

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