112 Color names for "Orange"

Sinopia (also known as sinoper, named after the now Turkish city Sinop) is a dark reddish-brown naturalearth pigment, whose reddish colour comes from hematite, a dehydrated form of iron oxide. It was widely used in Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages for painting, and during the Renaissance it was often used on the rough initial layer of plaster for the underdrawing for a fresco. The word came to be used both for the pigment and for the preparatory drawing itself, which may be revealed when a fresco is stripped from its wall for transfer. During the Middle Ages sinopia in Latin and Italian came to mean simply a red ochre. It entered the English language as the word sinoper, meaning a red earth colour. Sinopia is a colour in various modern colour systems.

Rust is an orange-brown color resembling iron oxide. It is a commonly used color in stage lighting and appears roughly the same color as photographic safelights when used over a standard tungsten light source. The first recorded use of rust as a color name in English was in 1692.

The color redwood is a representation of color of the wood of the redwood tree (Sequoia sempervirens). The first recorded use of redwood as a color name in English was in 1917. The source of this color is the Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX) color list, color #18-1443—Redwood.

The Crayola color red-orange has been a Crayola color since 1930.

Peru is a web color classified as an orange-brown, with a hue of 30. This color was originally called Peruvian brown with the first recorded use in 1924 of Peruvian brown as a color name in English. The color name was changed to peru in 1987, when this color was formulated as one of the X11 colors, which in the early 1990s became known as the X11 web colors.

Copper is a reddish brown color that resembles the metal copper. The first recorded use of copper as a color name in English was in 1594.

Chinese red or China red is the name used for the vermilion shade used in Chinese lacquerware. The shade of the color can vary from dark to light depending upon how the pigment is made and how the lacquer was applied. Chinese red was originally made from the powdered mineral cinnabar, but beginning in about the 8th century it was made more commonly by a chemical process combining mercury and sulfur. Vermilion has significance in Taoist culture, and is regarded as the color of life and eternity. "Chinese red" appears in English in 1924.

Fawn is a light yellowish tan colour. It is usually used in reference to clothing, soft furnishings and bedding, as well as to a dog's coat colour. It occurs in varying shades, ranging between pale tan to pale fawn to dark deer-red. The first recorded use of fawn as a colour name in English was in 1789.

The first recorded use of flame as a color name in English was in 1590. The source of this color is the ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955), a color dictionary used by stamp collectors to identify the colors of stamps. A sample of the color "Flame" (color sample #34) is also displayed in the Dictionary online version.

Selective yellow is a colour for automotive lamps, particularly headlamps and other road-illumination lamps such as fog lamps. Under ECE regulations, headlamps were formerly permitted to be either white or selective yellow—in France, selective yellow was mandatory for all vehicles' road-illumination lamps until 1993.

Earth yellow is one of the twelve official camouflage colors of the United States Army.

Cocoa brown, with a hue of 25, is classified as an orange-brown.

Marigold is a yellow-orange color. It is named after the flower of the same name. It is currently unknown when marigold was first used as a colour name, although the New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield used it to describe a hair colour in her short story Something Childish But Very Natural (1914).

Named after the fruit, the color tangerine is a tone of orange.

Pigment red is the color red that is achieved by mixing process (printer's) magenta and process (printer's) yellow in equal proportions.

Cadmium red is a pigment used in painting, made from cadmium sulfide. It has been used for centuries by artists due to its bright and durable properties. The color shown here with hex code #006B3C resembles this cadmium red pigment.

Terra cotta is a color that resembles terracotta pottery.

The adjacent box displays the generic tone of international orange used by military contractors and in engineering generally. The source of this color is Federal Standard 595, a U.S. federal government standard set up in 1956 for paint colors which is mostly used by military contractors and also in engineering. International Orange is designated as Federal Standard 595 color #FS 12197. In accordance with air safety regulations, some tall towers, e.g. Tokyo Tower and the Yerevan TV Tower, are painted in white and international orange.

Indian yellow is a complex pigment consisting primarily of euxanthic acid salts (magnesium euxanthate and calcium euxanthate), euxanthone and sulphonated euxanthone. It is also known as purree, snowshoe yellow, gaugoli, gogili, Hardwari peori, Monghyr puri, peoli, peori, peri rung, pioury, piuri, purrea arabica, pwree, jaune indien (French, Dutch), Indischgelb (German), yìndù huáng (Chinese), giallo indiano (Italian), amarillo indio (Spanish). The crystalline form dissolved in water or mixed with oil to produce a transparent yellow paint which was used in Indian frescoes, oil painting and watercolors. After application Indian yellow produced a clear, deep and luminescent orange-yellow color which, due to its fluorescence, appears especially vivid and bright in sunlight. It was said to be of a disagreeable odour. It was most used in India in the Mughal period and in Europe in the nineteenth century, before becoming commercially unavailable circa 1921.

Apricot is a light yellowish-orangish color that is similar to the color of apricots. However, it is paler than actual apricots.

Deep chestnut is the color called chestnut in Crayola crayons.This colour was also produced in a special limited edition in which it was called Vermont maple syrup. At the request of educators worried that children (mistakenly) believed the name represented the skin colour of Native Americans, Crayola changed the name of their crayon colour "Indian Red", originally formulated in 1958, to "Chestnut" in 1999. In reality, the colour Indian red has nothing to do with American Indians but is an iron oxide pigment the use of which is popular in India.

Salmon is a range of pinkish-orange to light pink colors, named after the color of salmon flesh. The first recorded use of salmon as a color name in English was in 1776. The actual color of salmon flesh varies from almost white to light orange, depending on their levels of the carotenoid astaxanthin due to how rich a diet of krill and shrimp the fish feeds on; salmon raised on fish farms are given non-synthetic or artificial coloring in their food.

Mellow apricot is one of the colors on the British Standards 5252 color list, listed as #06E50. This color list is used for color coordination and building construction. The British Standard color lists were first established in 1930 and reached their current form in 1955.

California Gold is one of the official colors of the University of California, Berkeley, as identified in their graphic style guide for use in on-screen representations of the gold color in the university's seal. For print media, the guide recommends to, "se Pantone 7750 metallic or Pantone 123 yellow and 282 blue". The color is one of two most used by Berkeley, the other being Berkeley Blue; these, together, are the original colors of the University of California system, of which variations of blue and gold can be found in each campus' school colors.

Deep Indian red is the colour originally called Indian red from its formulation in 1903 until 1999, but now called chestnut, in Crayola crayons.This colour was also produced in a special limited edition in which it was called Vermont maple syrup. At the request of educators worried that children mistakenly believed the name represented the skin color of Native Americans, Crayola changed the name of their crayon color Indian Red to Chestnut in 1999.

Unbleached silk is one of the Japanese traditional colors in use since beginning in 660 CE in the form of various dyes that are used in designing kimonos. The name of this color in Japanese is shironericode.

Vermilion (sometimes vermillion) is a color family and pigment most often used between antiquity and the 19th century from the powdered mineral cinnabar (a form of mercury sulfide). It is synonymous with red orange, which often takes a modern form, but is 11% brighter (at full brightness). Used first in English in the 13th century, the word vermilion came from the Old French word vermeillon, which was derived from vermeil, from the Latin vermiculus – the diminutive of the Latin word vermis for worm. The name originated because it had a similar color to the natural red dye made from an insect, Kermes vermilio, which was widely used in Europe. The first recorded use of "vermilion" as a color name in English was in 1289.

This has been the color called gold in Crayola crayons since 1903. Pale gold is one of the Lithuanian basketball club Lietkabelis Panevėžys primary colors.

The color cinnabar derives from the mineral of the same name. It is a slightly orange shade of red, with variations ranging from bright scarlet to brick red.

This color was originally called harvest in the 1920s. The first recorded use of harvest as a color name in English was in 1923. Harvest gold was a common color for metal surfaces (including automobiles and household appliances), as was the color avocado, during the whole decade of the 1970s. They were both also popular colors for shag carpets. Both colors (as well as shag carpets) went out of style by the early 1980s.

Bronze is a metallic brown color which resembles the metal alloy bronze. The first recorded use of bronze as a color name in English was in 1753.

Amber is one of several technically defined colors used in automotive signal lamps. In North America, SAE standard J578 governs the colorimetry of vehicle lights, while outside North America the internationalized European ECE regulations hold force. Both standards designate a range of orange-yellow hues in the CIE color space as "amber". In the past, the ECE amber definition was more restrictive than the SAE definition, but the current ECE definition is identical to the more permissive SAE standard. The SAE formally uses the term "yellow amber", though the color is most often referred to as "yellow". This is not the same as selective yellow, a color used in some fog lamps and headlamps.

Peach puff is a web color with a soft, warm tone resembling the color of peach.

This color can be described as light tone of apricot or pale orange yellow. It was called apricot since 1958 in Crayola crayons.

Saffron is a shade of yellow or orange, the colour of the tip of the saffron crocus thread, from which the spice saffron is derived. The hue of the spice saffron is primarily due to the carotenoid chemical crocin. The color Saffron (Hindi: भगवा, romanized: Bhagawā) is considered as a sacred color in Hinduism. According to Hindu mythology, Saffron (or Kesariya) is the color of Sunset (Sandhya) and Fire (Agni) which symbolises sacrifice, light, and quest of salvation.

The web color known as Hunyadi yellow, also referred to as Pear gold, is historically represented on the coat of arms of John Hunyadi, a prominent Hungarian military leader and political figure of the 15th century.

Harvest gold is a shade of orange and yellow. It was popular with kitchen and other appliances during the 1970s, along with brown, burnt orange, and avocado green.

The pale tone of copper displayed is the color referred to as copper in Crayola crayons. This color was formulated by Crayola in 1903.

Saffron is a shade of yellow or orange, the colour of the tip of the saffron crocus thread, from which the spice saffron is derived. The hue of the spice saffron is primarily due to the carotenoid chemical crocin. India saffron (Kesara/Kesariya), representing courage and sacrifice, was chosen for one of the three bands of the National Flag of India, along with white (peace and truth) and what is now called India green (faith and chivalry).

The web color tomato is a medium reddish-orange color that approximates the color of common supermarket tomatoes. Many vine-ripened tomatoes are a bit redder. The color of tomato soup is slightly less saturated. The first recorded use of tomato as a color name in English was in 1891. When the X11 color names were invented in 1987, the color tomato was formulated as one of them.

Sandy tan is a color formulated by Crayola in 2000 for use in Crayola markers.

The web color called "chocolate" is actually the color of the exterior of an unripe cocoa bean pod, not the color of processed chocolate. Historically, this color is known as cocoa brown, with its first recorded use as a color name in English dating back to 1925. It may also be referred to as light chocolate or cinnamon.

The color copper red is displayed, characterized by its warm, reddish-brown hue reminiscent of the metal copper. The first recorded use of copper red as a color name in English was in 1590.

Chili red is the color of red chili peppers.It is the shade of red used in the flags of Chile and South Africa.

Tangelo is a shade of orange that is the color of the outer skin of the tangelo fruit.

Rose madder (also known as madder) is a red paint made from the pigment madder lake, a traditional lake pigment extracted from the common madder plant Rubia tinctorum. Madder lake contains two organic red dyes: alizarin and purpurin.As a paint, it has been described as a fugitive, transparent, nonstaining, mid valued, moderately dull violet red pigment in tints and medium solutions, darkening to an impermanent, dull magenta red in masstone.

Desert sand is a very light and very weakly saturated reddish yellow colour which corresponds specifically to the coloration of sand. It may also be regarded as a deep tone of beige. Desert sand was used by General Motors, along with "rosewood", as a paint color for their early Cadillacs. In 1998, desert sand was made into a Crayola crayon colour. The color matches the palest of the three colors in the 3-color Desert Camouflage Uniform of United States Armed Forces, which in 1990 began to replace the 6-color Desert Battle Dress Uniform.

Blanched Almond is a soft, creamy off-white with a hint of almond, often used to create a warm, inviting atmosphere. It was added to the X11 color system in 1999.

The color shown in the color box is the color normally and traditionally regarded as brown—a medium dark orange. Its h (hue) code is 30, which signifies a shade of orange.

Tawny (also called tenné) is a light brown to brownish-orange color. The word means "tan-colored", from Anglo-Norman tauné "associated with the brownish-yellow of tanned leather", from Old French tané "to tan hides", from Medieval Latin tannare, from tannum "crushed oak bark", used in tanning leather, probably from a Celtic source (e.g. Breton tann, "oak tree").