Color Names

Orpiment Orange

Vibrant orange, like the toxic mineral that painted medieval faces and manuscripts.

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Orpiment Orange is a bright orange, close to brown.

It can be described as bright, vivid, brilliant and glowing.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Orpiment Orange

Orange (colour)

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.

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Orpiment

Orpiment, also known as yellow arsenic blende, is a deep-colored, orange-yellow arsenic sulfide mineral with formula As2S3. It is found in volcanic fumaroles, low-temperature hydrothermal veins, and hot springs and may be formed through sublimation.

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orpiment

Noun

  1. Arsenic trisulphide, occurring naturally in crystals or massive deposits, formerly used as a dye or pigment.
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orange

Noun

  1. An evergreen tree of the genus Citrus such as Citrus sinensis which yields oranges (the fruit).
  2. Any round citrus fruit with a yellow-red colour when ripe and a sour-sweet taste; the fruit of the orange tree.

Adjective

  1. Having the colour of the fruit of an orange tree; yellowred; reddish-yellow.
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