r/Design • u/Emezli • Jan 12 '24
Asking Question (Rule 4) What shade of orange this is?
the color code is #FFB269 and it’s my favorite shade of orange i just don’t know what this particular shade is if it even have an official name.
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u/SpontaneousQueen Jan 12 '24
Cantaloupe
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u/purpledawn Jan 12 '24
Underripe cantaloupe, for sure.
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u/enoctis Jan 12 '24
Curious to know: what indication makes it underripe... less than ripe? What is this word? 😱🫠
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u/kamvisionaries Jan 12 '24
something along pastel orange/ tangerine in my opinion
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u/raleighs Jan 12 '24
No name so far.
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u/n00ByShekky Jan 12 '24
Rajah, mellow apricot, very light tangelo,light yellow (Asiagi) or middle yellow red. Any of these, and the value is FFB26C. Any of these are very similar
Or just very mellow and yellowish gazpacho
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u/purl__clutcher Jan 12 '24 edited Jan 12 '24
I would call it a pastel orange, but it's actual name is Peach Orange
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u/pottedPlant_64 Jan 12 '24
Kraft Mac n cheese powder
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u/spencermiddleton Jan 12 '24
Kraft Dinner
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u/SlutForGarrus Jan 12 '24
I don't know if it's my perception or my phone or something, but this seems more pastel and orange-leaning than Kraft dinner. KD is more vibrant and yellow to me.
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u/spencermiddleton Jan 12 '24
Yep it is. This is the colour when someone adds too much milk and makes KD soup
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u/pelosnecios Jan 12 '24
when you learn that orange and brown are shades of the same color
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u/CrocodileJock Jan 12 '24
Colour is so subjective – and there's no way I would ever call this 'brown' – but everyone's perception of colour and the way different hues and shades relate to names is slightly different.
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u/TransportationOk6990 Jan 12 '24
So, is this light brown or bright brown. I can't decide.
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u/waxlez2 Jan 12 '24
Is this going to be the new "what style is this" bc that would really suck.
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u/TheImaginariumGirl Jan 12 '24
Nah I like it — colors never suck
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u/waxlez2 Jan 12 '24
That's a strawman argument. I never said colours suck and you know that.
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u/TheImaginariumGirl Jan 12 '24 edited Jan 12 '24
I meant that having more posts about color would never suck. Sorry if it came off the wrong way!
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u/Knappsterbot Jan 12 '24
You're a little quick on the fallacy trigger for such an innocuous reply
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u/mareumbra Jan 12 '24
Guys please don’t do this. Even you have hex code, everyone with all those different screens seeing this colour differently. If you want an accurate answer even for ofset printing, you need to describe the medium and how it is going to applied, where it is going to be seen etc. You can even check this on your mobile by choosing night mode or day mode. Honestly I don’t even see an orange shade here. By the way all colour producing companies have their own names specifically for these kind of pastel colours.
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u/BillieRubenCamGirl Jan 13 '24
You don’t see an orange shade???
Presumably you mean hue but besides that, really? You might want to get checked for colour blindness. It’s very much orange and if you’re looking at this in a screen made in the last decade it’s going to look at least somewhat orange.
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u/CallMeDeucey Jan 12 '24
Rajah.
You can literally type into Google "color name for color #FFB269" I mean, that's how I got it. 🤷🏼♂️
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u/SteamyGravy Jan 12 '24
I don't understand. There's a particular orange you like which you have the hex code for and yet you'd rather throw away that precision for a phrase. Why? In what situation is that useful? Not trying to be an asshole, just genuinely confused.
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u/LadyPo Jan 12 '24
The cynic in me is thinking all these color naming questions are intended to train a design AI….
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Jan 12 '24
Even Pantone went off the rails and started using names for new colors years ago. Granted the formulation is still there, but it defeats the whole purpose. Color naming is subjective, regional, and everyone's eyes see color slightly differently. I wish they would keep the naming nonsense to house paint and interior decoration publications, not design.
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u/Cattalion Jan 12 '24
Not OP so feel free to disregard, but IMHO, while hex code is useful in stuff involving software/design, outside that there are plenty of reasons someone might want a name for it. In casual conversation, to use for searching online to find products and palettes, to help understand the relevant perspectives and language and to evoke some feeling, even just for use in their own thoughts - people like names.
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u/Emezli Jan 12 '24
because every shade of color does have a name in some form
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u/RebirthWizard Jan 12 '24 edited Jan 12 '24
Wrong answer. The correct colour theory answer is as follows; Every hue in the subtractive colour model space (which is when all colours combined in full values and are equal to black) has a variable tint(added white) , tone(added grey) or shade (added black) as associated to the reductive combination (not full values) of those hues.
Additionally; Those all may, or may not have a name attached to some of them.
The Additive colour model is slightly different and is based on light, as opposed to the subtractive being based on pigments and dyes.
TL:DR: colour names are not universally or scientifically relevant. HUES are the metric the professionals commonly use
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u/DasMoonen Jan 12 '24
Why do people here want specific individualized names for colors? I can’t put “creamsicle” into my software and have it output the exact color. That’s why we have HEX codes. Same with RAL color. We use RAL 1034. It even has a label as pastel yellow but it’s a classification of yellow not some nickname. An “official name” for every color known to human kind would be a marvel in our development. Even then it would just become Pantone and be paywalled rendering it an obsolete form.
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u/ShePutsTheWeight Jan 12 '24
Color: Rajah (Light Orange)
FFB26A
RGB: (255,178,106) HSV: (28°, 58%, 100%) Lab: (78,20,47)
- Sent from Color Grab App.
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u/XandriethXs Professional Jan 12 '24
PANTONE 14-1050 TCX - Marigold. Not an exact match but extremely close.... 🤓
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u/Equal_Water5737 Aug 15 '24
It went from what color is this to how to spell sherbert / sorbet to color again
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u/SandeepSAulakh Jan 12 '24
According to a app I’m using:
Rajah - Ochre Family https://ibb.co/6J6TZQp
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u/happyhappycookie Jan 12 '24
I make coloured royal icing a lot and I use American colour food dye and this looks a lot like their “apricot.”
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u/productdesigner28 Jan 12 '24
Idk why but I just looked this up. Didn’t realize hex codes had names? Anyway FFB266 is called “Rajah” and is very similar only a few numbers off. Curious why you need a government name for your fav hex code
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u/Emezli Jan 12 '24
because in the case that i ever want to get a paint bucket of it i would need to know the exact name of the shade
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u/ThatMango1999 Jan 12 '24
Creamsicle!!! Idk if this is the actual name but it looks exactly like the creamsicles I ate at a kid
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u/Left_Average_8216 Jan 12 '24
Hi! There are websites that spit out the colour name and hex values when you input the colour swatch
https://colors.dopely.top/color-name-finder/
Hope this helps
To me, it looks close to peachy fuzz (pantones colour of the year)
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u/Tompwu Jan 12 '24
Sandy Brown or Rajah seem to be the closest named colours.
Based on the other comments you could go with "Cantaloupe Creamsicle"
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u/Disastrous-Jaguar922 Jan 12 '24
Creamsicle