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 for which it was named. Before the orange fruit was introduced to the English-speaking world, the colour was referred to (in Old English) as geoluhread, which transliterates into Modern English variously as yellow-red, yellowred, or yellored (all pronounced the same).

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Colour - Red - Yellow - Spectrum - Wavelength - Nanometre - Fruit - English - Old English - Transliterates - Modern English

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With natural colouring materials such as paints or crayons, orange, or "yellowred", is a secondary colour that can be derived from primary colours by mixing red (or more accurately, magenta) and yellow.

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Paint - Crayon - Secondary colour - Primary colour - Magenta

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This is the only named colour defined in CSS that is not also defined in HTML 4.01.

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CSS - HTML 4.01

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