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Some Things to Know About Orange

• Orange is between yellow and red on the color wheel and is a secondary color, created by mixing red and yellow pigments. Orange’s complement is blue.
• The Sanskrit word naranga gave Europeans a loanword they could use to describe the fruit trees that started showing up in the late 15th and early 16th century. The English word orange is derived from this root by way of Arabic, Italian, and French.
• Orange is associated with Protestantism, and the orange band on the Irish flag represents the Protestant minority in Ireland.
• Orange is also identified with Hinduism and Buddhism. In Hindu iconography, Krishna is often depicted wearing orange; in Buddhism the color represents illumination. Wandering holy men in India wear saffron colored robes; Buddhist monks in a variety of schools wear orange or saffron robes.
• Due to its high visibility even in dim light, orange is a popular color for life rafts and flotation vests, safety markers, high-visibility clothing,
• The “black box” on an aircraft (there are actually two such devices on every aircraft) is actually orange to increase its visibility in a debris field.
• Orange is the national color of the Netherlands due to the royal family’s house, the House of Orange-Nassau.
• The coat of arms of the United States 1st Cavalry Regiment features a gold dragon on an orange shield.
• Numerous brands include orange in their logos and color sets, most famously FedEx and The Home Depot.
• Due to its high visibility, orange is a popular color in sports logo/jersey designs. The Anaheim Ducks and Philadelphia Flyers in the NHL sport orange jerseys; the New York Knicks (lol) and the Oklahoma City Thunder in the NBA have an orange/blue color scheme; and in MLB the Baltimore Orioles and San Francisco Giants have a black and orange scheme.