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The Day-Glo Color Corp. (also styled as DayGlo) is a privately held [1] American paint and pigments manufacturer based in Cleveland, Ohio. It was founded in 1946 by brothers Joseph and Robert Switzer and is currently owned by RPM International .
The invention of black light paint is attributed to brothers Joseph and Robert Switzer in the 1930s. After a fall, Robert suffered a severe head injury that resulted in a severed optic nerve.
The color sunset is a pale tint of orange. It is a representation of the average color of clouds when the sunlight from a sunset is reflected from them. The first recorded use of sunset as a color name in English was in 1916. [1]
Dayglo or Day-Glo may also refer to: Music. Dayglo (album), a 1992 album, the first full-length album by Love Battery;
Robert C. Switzer (19 May 1914 – 20 August 1997) was an American inventor, businessman and environmentalist. Switzer was co-inventor of the first black light fluorescent paint along with his brother Joseph Switzer and the inventor of the Magnaglo process for nondestructive flaw-detection in machined parts.
Sunset yellow FCF (also known as orange yellow S, or C.I. 15985) is a petroleum-derived orange azo dye with a pH-dependent maximum absorption at about 480 nm at pH 1 and 443 nm at pH 13, with a shoulder at 500 nm.
In Europe, Dayglo orange (or "luminous orange"; RAL 2005) serves the same purpose. Safety orange is the same color as blaze orange , the shade of orange (Color No. 12199) required by United States law (U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, Title 15 Commerce and Foreign Trade, Section 1150.3) to be on the tips of barrels of replica guns such as ...
Orange GGN, also known as alpha-naphthol orange, is an azo dye [1] formerly used as a food dye. It is the disodium salt of 1-( m -sulfophenylazo)-2-naphthol-6-sulfonic acid. In Europe , it was denoted by the E Number E111, but has been forbidden for use in foods since 1 January 1978. [ 2 ]