Orange (colour)

Orange
Spectral coordinates
Wavelength	590–620 nm
Frequency	505–480 THz
Colour coordinates
Hex triplet	#FF8000
sRGBB  (r, g, b)	(255, 128, 0)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k)	(0, 50, 100, 0)
HSV       (h, s, v)	(30°, 100%, 100%)
Source	HTML Colour Chart @30
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Orange is the colour of carrots, pumpkins and apricots. It is between red and yellow in the spectrum of light, and on the traditional painters' colour wheel. It is named after the fruit of the same name.

In Europe and America, surveys show that orange is the colour most associated with amusement, the unconventional, extroverts, warmth, fire, energy, activity, danger, taste and aroma, the autumn season, and Protestantism, as well as having long been the national colour of the Netherlands and the House of Orange. In Asia it is an important symbolic colour of Buddhism and Hinduism.

The colour orange derives its name from the orange fruit.

Delicate Arch in Arches National Park, Utah

Lifeboats in Arklow Harbour, Ireland. Orange is chosen for lifeboats and lifesaving jackets because of its high visibility.

A young Buddhist monk in Laos

Hindu Sadhus, or holy men, in Rajasthan, wear orange as a sacred colour.

Saffron is both a spice and a widely used dye in Asia.

The colour orange is named after the appearance of the ripe orange fruit. The word comes from the Old French orange, from the old term for the fruit, pomme d'orange. The French word, in turn, comes from the Italian arancia, based on Arabic nāranj, derived from the Sanskrit naranga. The first recorded use of orange as a colour name in English was in 1512, in a will now filed with the Public Record Office.

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