At above right is the colour wheel colour orange. This is the colour orange as defined in HSV colour space; that is, it is the hue midway between red and yellow. It is numerically halfway between red and yellow in a gamma-compressedRGB colour space, and is diametrically opposite azure, on the HSV colour wheel.
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.
The first recorded use of orange as a colour name in English was in 1512,[1] in the court of King Henry VIII.
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. [3] A discussion of the difference between the colours orange and orange peel is given in Maerz and Paul.[4]
At right is the colour tangerine, a shade of orange that is the colour of the tangerine fruit. The first recorded use of tangerine as a colour name in English was in 1899. [5]
Carrot orange
A tint of orange that is the colour of the raw carrot]] vegetable. The first recorded use of carrot orange as a colour name in English was in 1684. [6]
Burnt orange
Burnt orange has been in use as a colour name for this deep shade of orange since 1915. [7]
Burnt orange was popular in interior design in the 1970s. So-called redheads actually have hair that averages a burnt orange colour.
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. [8]
Orange symbology
Politically
Orange is the national colour of the Netherlands and is seen on its original flag and coat of arms.
Orange is the contrasting colour of blue and is highly visible against a clear sky. Therefore, shades of orange such as safety orange are often used in high visibility clothing and other safety equipment and objects.
Orange was the rallying colour of the 2004 – 2005 Orange Revolution in Ukraine and has thus become a colour symbolising opposition to tyranny around the world.
The colour orange is used in a campain to highlight the violations of the human rights in China on the occasion of the 2008 Summer Olympics. [1]
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.[9]
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.
In English heraldry, orange is considered synonymous with the tincturetenne. However, its use as a heraldic tincture is relatively rare, as it is 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 holidayHalloween (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.[citation needed]
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
TNT post sign in tne Netherlands
Linguistically
People whose natural hair colour is metaphorically described in English as being red, i.e. 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:
Orange is the national colour of The Netherlands, because its royal family 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.[citation needed] 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.
^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 200; Color Sample: Orange Peel Page 43 Plate 10 Color Sample L10.
^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930--McGraw-Hill--Discussion of color Orange, Page 170
^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 205; Color Sample: Tangerine Page 27 Plate 2 Color Sample H11
^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 192; Color Sample: Carrot Orange Page 43 Plate 10 Color Sample C11; see discussion of color "carrot orange" on page 152.
^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York: 1930--McGraw-Hill Page 191 ; Color sample of Burnt Orange: Page 29 Plate 3 Color Sample E12
^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 191
^Swami PanchadasiThe Human Aura: Astral Colors and Thought Forms Des Plaines, Illinois, USA:1912--Yogi Publications Society Page 33
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