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Specifically, blue and other darker shades continue to be described as black, yellow and orange colors are classified with red, and other bright colors continue to be classified with white. In the Bambara language, there are three color terms: dyema (white, beige), blema (reddish, brownish), and fima (dark green, indigo, and black).
Berlin and Kay identified eleven possible basic color categories: white, black, red, green, yellow, blue, brown, purple, pink, orange, and gray. To be considered a basic color category, the term for the color in each language had to meet certain criteria: It is monolexemic (for example, red, not red-yellow or yellow-red.)
Cyan is any of the colors in the blue-green range of the visible spectrum, i.e., between approximately 490 and 520 nm. It is considered one of the main subtractive primary colors. Cyan is sometimes considered green or blue because of the way it appears.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 21 January 2025. Varieties of the color orange Orange Wavelength 585–620 nm Common connotations Autumn, Halloween, Thanksgiving, warmth Color coordinates Hex triplet #FFA500 sRGB B (r, g, b) (255, 165, 0) HSV (h, s, v) (39°, 100%, 100%) CIELCh uv (L, C, h) (75, 105, 45°) Source HTML Color Chart @30 B ...
Intermediate colors between green and blue are commonly referred to as zöldeskék (literally greenish-blue) or kékeszöld (bluish-green), but names for specific colors in this continuum—like turquoise (türkiz)—also exist. Particular shades of a color can also have separate names, such as azure (azúr).
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Orange is the colour most easily seen in dim light or against the water, making it, particularly the shade known as safety orange, the colour 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.
To form named hues, the seven chromatic base colors, i.e. red, orange, brown, yellow, green, blue and purple, can either be combined with each other and a hyphen in between or with a prefixed splash color, i.e. the same terms with an -ish suffix. The resulting hue may be varied by lightness, saturation or both.