

Orange is the colour of choice for many of the national sports teams and their supporters. There is no etymological connection between orange (the fruit and colour) and Orange (the name of the principality), and the similarity is fortuitous.

Ĭarrot orange is a tint of orange that is the colour of the raw carrot vegetable. The first recorded use of tangerine as a colour name in English was in 1899. The web colour called dark orange is displayed at right.Īdditional variations on the colour orangeĪt right is the colour tangerine, a shade of orange that is the colour of the tangerine fruit.

Web colour orange, defined as FFA500, is the only named colour defined in CSS that is not also defined in HTML 4.01 The first recorded use of orange as a colour name in English was in 1512, in the court of King Henry VIII. Before this was introduced to the English-speaking world, the colour was referred to (in Old English) as geoluhread, which translates into Modern English as yellow-red. The colour is named after the orange fruit, introduced to Europe via the Indo-European word nāranja.
