https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(colour)

The colour orange is named after the appearance of the ripe orange fruit. The word comes from the Old French orange, from the old term for the fruit, pomme d’orange. The French word, in turn, comes from the Italian arancia, based on Arabic nāranj, derived from the Sanskrit naranga. The first recorded use of orange as a colour name in English was in 1512, in a will now filed with the Public Record Office.

Before this word was introduced to the English-speaking world, saffron already existed in the English language. Crog also referred to the saffron colour, so that orange was also referred to as ġeolurēad (yellow-red) for reddish orange, or ġeolucrog (yellow-saffron) for yellowish orange. Alternatively orange things were sometimes described as red such as red deer, red hair, the Red Planet and robin redbreast.

just describe it as #ff8000

transition said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_(colour)

The colour orange is named after the appearance of the ripe orange fruit. The word comes from the Old French orange, from the old term for the fruit, pomme d’orange. The French word, in turn, comes from the Italian arancia, based on Arabic nāranj, derived from the Sanskrit naranga. The first recorded use of orange as a colour name in English was in 1512, in a will now filed with the Public Record Office.

Before this word was introduced to the English-speaking world, saffron already existed in the English language. Crog also referred to the saffron colour, so that orange was also referred to as ġeolurēad (yellow-red) for reddish orange, or ġeolucrog (yellow-saffron) for yellowish orange. Alternatively orange things were sometimes described as red such as red deer, red hair, the Red Planet and robin redbreast.

chestnut, rufous, Flame breasted.

It’s funny that in all of the Malayic languages (Javanese, Sundanese, Madurese, Betawi as well as Malay and Bahasa Indonesia), the word for brown is “coklat”, which is derived from the European words for chocolate. More broadly related languages have native words for brown, and we can assume that so did the Malayic languages prior to European colonisation, but it is interesting that coklat supplanted them so thoroughly

dv said:

It’s funny that in all of the Malayic languages (Javanese, Sundanese, Madurese, Betawi as well as Malay and Bahasa Indonesia), the word for brown is “coklat”, which is derived from the European words for chocolate. More broadly related languages have native words for brown, and we can assume that so did the Malayic languages prior to European colonisation, but it is interesting that coklat supplanted them so thoroughly

Even oranges turn brown when their day is dark.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_(color)

Lemon or lemon-color is a pale yellow color, the color of the lemon fruit

The first recorded use of lemon as a color name in English was in 1598.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lime_(color)

Lime, also traditionally known as lime green, lime-green, or bitter lime, is a color that is a shade of green, so named because it is a representation of the color of the citrus fruit called limes. It is the color that is in between the web color chartreuse and yellow on the color wheel.

The first recorded use of lime green as a color name in English was in 1890.

When was the first use of ‘kale’ as a colour?

Speaking of orange- does anyone know what happened to (was it boris??) the sssf orange ball that everyone had signed???

boppa said:

Speaking of orange- does anyone know what happened to (was it boris??) the sssf orange ball that everyone had signed???

The signed orange ball was Bob. I never heard it talk.

Wen used to be the keeper for a while I think.

Bob- that’s it

For something really interesting, try reading about the colour known as “mummy brown”.

kii said:

“mummy brown”.

It’s a great show