orange

Also known as color orange, orange color, orange colour, colour orange

colour, located between red and yellow in the spectrum of light

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Orange is a color that falls between red and yellow in the spectrum of light. It matters because it's a fundamental part of how we perceive and organize the colors we see in the world around us.

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Image: Color icon orange.svg

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CSS color keyword: orange
Commons category: Orange (colour)
sRGB color hex triplet: FF7F00
Commons gallery: Orange (color)
P8168: half note
wavelength: 612.5
frequency: 500000000000000
OpenStreetMap tag: colour=orange

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Orange is the colour between yellow and red on the spectrum of visible light. The human eyes perceive orange when observing light with a dominant wavelength between roughly 585 and 620 nanometres. In traditional colour theory, it is a secondary colour of pigments, produced by mixing yellow and red. In the RGB colour model, it is a tertiary colour. It is named after the fruit of the same name.

The orange colour of many fruits and vegetables, such as carrots, pumpkins, sweet potatoes, and oranges, comes from carotenes, a type of photosynthetic pigment. These pigments convert the light energy that the plants absorb from the Sun into chemical energy for the plants' growth. Similarly, the hues of autumn leaves are from the same pigment after chlorophyll is removed.