Random trivia | 50 facts about the orange color

Orange is a really vibrant and intensive color, and many people love it, while others simply love it. But how many things do we know about it?

Let’s find out more about it!

Orange is the color between yellow and red on the spectrum of visible light.
In painting and traditional color theory, it is a secondary color of pigments, created by mixing yellow and red.
It is named after the fruit of the same name.
In English, the color orange is named after the appearance of the ripe
The orange color is one of the carrots, pumpkins, sweet potatoes, oranges, and many other fruits and vegetables.
Carotenes are pigments that 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.
In Europe and America, surveys show that orange is the color most associated with amusement, the unconventional, extroverts, warmth, fire, energy, activity, danger, taste, and aroma.
It’s the national color of the Netherlands and the House of Orange.
In Asia orange is an important symbolic color of Buddhism and Hinduism
In the 18th century, orange was sometimes used to depict the robes of Pomona, the goddess of fruitful abundance.
Her name came from the pomon, the Latin word for fruit.
Oranges themselves became more common in northern Europe, thanks to the 17th-century invention of the heated greenhouse, a building type that became known as an Orangerie.
The French artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard depicted an allegorical figure of “inspiration” dressed in orange.
In Ukraine in November–December 2004, it became the color of the Orange Revolution, a popular movement which carried activist and reformer Viktor Yushchenko into the presidency.
Regarding painting, blue is the complementary color to orange.
As many painters of the 19th century discovered, blue and orange reinforce each other.
The painter Vincent van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo that in his paintings, he was trying to reveal “the oppositions of blue with orange, of red with green, of yellow with violet … trying to make the colors intense and not a harmony of grey”.
In Confucianism, the religion and philosophy of ancient China, orange was the color of transformation.
In Europe and America, orange and yellow are the colors most associated with amusement, frivolity, and entertainment.
It is often used in marketing campaigns to recreate these feelings to potential clients, and consumers.
Orange is the color most easily seen in dim light or against the water.
This is why it is the color of choice for life rafts, life jackets, or buoys.
Highway temporary signs about construction or detours in the United States are orange, because of its visibility and its association with danger.
The word orange derives from the Sanskrit naranga and the Persian narang.
Naranjas are the oranges in Spanish.
The blood used on the set of Sweeney Todd, had to be orange to render properly on the de-saturated color film.
Orange was a symbol of the glory and fruits of the earth in the early Christian church.
It was also known as the wisdom ray.
In Feng Shui orange represents fire. Colors are very significant in the ancient concept.
The nobility were the only ones during the Elizabethan Era who could wear orange.
Orange is often biblically associated with saints and represents strength and courage.
The first operator in Europe to commit to pushing NFC across its territories was the mobile network giant Orange.
Orange’s well-known slogan was “the futures bright, the futures orange”.
An orange vehicle apparently says you are a fun-loving and trendy person.
Frank Sinatra had a love for the color orange, once saying “Orange is the happiest of colors
The color of the United States Army Signal Corps is orange.
Orange is a very popular color in the world of sport with American football teams including Chicago Bears, Cincinnati Bengals, and baseball teams including the San Francisco Giants having their primary color is orange.
The fruits’ orange appearance isn’t a common occurrence in other parts of the world.
Vietnamese oranges and Thai tangerines are orange on the inside and yet bright green on the outside.
The Netherlands soccer team, or ‘Oranje’, play in orange kits.
An orange’s skin turns orange as the weather cools but in hotter areas, the chlorophyll stays and the fruit remains green.
The canary’s orange color isn’t a natural thing, initially, the birds were a green-brown but cross-breeding made them yellow, combine this with a diet of red peppers and they become orange.
Originally carrots weren’t orange.
The most common color was purple.
The orange variety came about by the 17^th Century when Dutch growers seemingly crossbred white rooted, mutated yellow and wild carrots.
Every 25^th day of the month is known as “Orange Day” by the UN’s campaign called UNiTE to End Violence against Women.
The day is to raise awareness and act to stop violence against women.
Consumer research has proven that an orange lawnmower is easier to find in long grass than a blue one, this was why in 1977 Flymo changed from blue to orange.
Orange is the Dutch Royal Family’s color. Descendants of William of Orange, the color became the symbol of the Netherlands.