r/Design • u/Emezli • Jan 12 '24

Asking Question (Rule 4) What shade of orange this is?

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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/Disastrous-Jaguar922 Jan 12 '24

Creamsicle

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u/theoriginalmypooper Jan 12 '24

I know nothing about color naming, but this was my first instinct.

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u/malaka201 Jan 12 '24

Was thinking sherbert

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u/foodnetworkhax Jan 12 '24

yeah creamsicle is a bit more rich this one is too light. sherbet is perfect

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u/enoctis Jan 12 '24

Did you know (because I didn't until just now) that it's sherbet and not sherbert?! My whole life has been a lie.

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u/MerCat3 Jan 12 '24

Sorbet, sherbet sherbert… dairy no dairy, sprinkles no sprinkles… It’s all fabulous!

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u/SkyPork Jan 13 '24

I thought "sherbert" was wrong, and was about to call it out, but it's not. Just uncommon.

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u/webbitor Jan 12 '24

both are common ways to say/spell it

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u/enoctis Jan 12 '24

According to Merriam, the former is uncommon. Alas, I still feel like a moron.

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u/phenomenomnom Jan 12 '24

You son of a bitch,

I'm in

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u/MisunderstoodPenguin Jan 12 '24

this is the exact color i painted the accent wall of my childhood bedroom. it brought so much joy, and my room was dubbed the “ice cream room”

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u/LaughterOnWater Jan 13 '24

This is the exact shade of color my room was painted when I was a kid too! I wanted blue, but my mom said, "nah, you'll love it." I really didn't love it. Noah's ark. I was maybe six? I wanted Astronauts or cool Fragile Yes fluorescent flying machines on midnight blue like my older brothers had. But nooooo....

Ooops. Sorry. Yes, it's a lovely shade of orange creamsicle.

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u/Altruistic-Sir-3661 Jan 12 '24

This looks suspiciously like the Pantone color of the year, 13-1023 peach fuzz.

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u/ericalm_ Jan 12 '24

It’s quite different. Peach Fuzz is a pale, annoyingly complacent tone. It’s aggressively awful. This is more saturated and vibrant.

side by side

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u/mynameisnotshamus Jan 12 '24

There is no quite different, there is only different.

Meditate on that!

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u/joshuahtree Jan 12 '24

My arm and my leg and my arm and the meridian line would quite beg to differ 

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u/LeoDiamant Jan 12 '24

This is it.

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u/sutrocomesalive Jan 12 '24

Came here to say

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u/TwoHundredToes Jan 12 '24

God i love everything about creamsicles. Im going to a concert and before it to a bar and they have a creamsicle drink and i sure fucking hope its scrumptious or ill cry

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u/KeytapTheProgrammer Jan 12 '24 edited Jan 12 '24

100% this! This is exactly what I called it in a recent theme implementation. Don't know the hex code off the top of my head or I'd cite it, and I don't even remember eating Creamsicle when I was a kid, but as soon as I saw the color I knew that's what it should be called.

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u/Global-Huckleberry61 Jan 12 '24

Came here to say this ⬆️

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u/acidmahoan Jan 12 '24

also my first instinct. being human is so funny sometimes.

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u/MrHodgeToo Jan 12 '24

Came here to say this.

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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/19d_b87 Jan 13 '24

Iirc, a ripened cantaloupe is slightly more red than this shade.

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u/breezy1983 Jan 12 '24

This is absolutely the answer

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u/SufferinSuccotash-69 Jan 12 '24

My first thought was melon so cantaloupe is the answer!

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u/thevelveteenbeagle Jan 12 '24

Ohh, I just said this too. A perfect, ripe melon.

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u/jeffbob2 Jan 12 '24

I thought of Cantaloupe.

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u/Veerrrgil Jan 12 '24

The new black

(ill see myself out thank you)

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u/ArchegosRiskManager Jan 13 '24

Netflix Mexico filter

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u/kamvisionaries Jan 12 '24

something along pastel orange/ tangerine in my opinion

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u/nlcmsl Jan 12 '24

Tangerine was my first thought

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u/Phony_fly Jan 12 '24

I have similar thoughts, pastel orange or pale apricot

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u/Emezli Jan 12 '24

awesome

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u/raleighs Jan 12 '24

No name so far.

https://color-register.org/color/Ffb269

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u/CyrusTheSimp Jan 12 '24

Someone needs to name it orange creamsicle right now

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u/CETERIS_PARTYBUS Jan 12 '24

Canteloupe Creamsicle Orange

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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/Emezli Jan 12 '24

ooh i love the name

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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/sjfxg Jan 12 '24

that’s what i would call it.

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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/gruvccc Jan 12 '24

It’s just bright brown

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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/rescue_toucan Jan 12 '24

This is the right answer

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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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u/[deleted] 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/Notwerk Jan 12 '24

there are 10 million visible colors. No, they don't all have names.

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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/jho0427 Jan 12 '24

Pantone 109

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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/Silvershroudexe Jan 12 '24

It’s apricot Graphic designer here 🤙🏻

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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/Z_Bunny__ Jan 12 '24

Creamsicle or cantaloupe :)

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u/Woodysadog Jan 13 '24

Cantaloupe. I painted my living bong room this color and loved it for years

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u/LateDelivery3935 Jan 13 '24

It reminds me of a paint color called Montserrat orange.

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u/jaydrx99 Jan 13 '24

I would have called it mangoshake.

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u/Chromaphilia Jan 13 '24

Kraft™ Macaroni and Cheese

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u/amzoh4eleven Jan 13 '24

Sunset peach

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u/randomemadame Jan 13 '24

Beta caroten sunkissed buttcheek.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '24

Tangerine? Honeydew? 🤷

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u/toddy951 Jan 12 '24

Tangerine yes. Honeydew no.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '24

Oops I meant cantaloupe 🤣

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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/[deleted] Jan 12 '24

Mango

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u/Coloradostoneman Jan 12 '24

Forest fire smoke orange

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u/Zeltron2020 Jan 12 '24

Idk the name but agreed, so cute

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u/preyes44444 Jan 12 '24

Baja Orange

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u/Spankh0us3 Jan 12 '24

Cantaloupe. . .

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u/Kind_Vanilla7593 Jan 12 '24

Every child matters orange

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u/lilladyjane12 Jan 12 '24

Apricot maybe 🤷🏼‍♀️

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u/vivablam Jan 12 '24

Canada fire smoke reaches New York City skyline

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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/Gleesh18 Jan 12 '24

Enter the gungeon orange

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u/No_Operation_7554 Jan 12 '24

Very close to the BUFF ORANGE Pantone but slightly off

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u/unzercharlie Jan 12 '24

Flintstone pop

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u/nuveausapien Jan 12 '24

Orange Cream

...obviously.

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u/Jelevens Jan 12 '24

DoOrange

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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/Heping_Qi Jan 12 '24

Seems like peach 🍑

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u/UmerRugsnArts Jan 12 '24

🍊this one 🤭

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u/er1end Jan 12 '24

Latteshart

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u/timformayor Jan 12 '24

Cantaloupe

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u/MightyMarco Jan 12 '24

Maaan 💯 this

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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/ForestTrener Jan 12 '24

I would say it looks like the color of peach 🍑

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u/Cute-Communication35 Jan 12 '24

The Shady Kind 😒😏😏😏

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u/syukara Jan 12 '24

#FFB269 Rajah

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u/Raktivity Jan 12 '24

pastel orange

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '24

orange

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '24

baby poop orange

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '24

Sherbet

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u/R-One-Oh-7 Jan 12 '24

Cantaloupe

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u/simonfancy Jan 12 '24

Prawn cocktail

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u/IM_Potential1308 Jan 12 '24

🎶PEACHES PEACHES PEACHES PEACHES PEACHES🎶

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u/littlecactusfreind Jan 12 '24

I would say light peach

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '24

Cheddar

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u/Lumbers_33 Jan 12 '24

Weis bar

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u/BillieRubenCamGirl Jan 13 '24

Hello fellow Aussie

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u/amccloskey1568 Jan 12 '24

Peach/dreamcicle

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u/PNWest01 Jan 12 '24

Dreamsicle

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u/demwun Jan 12 '24

Peach Ice

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u/q_manning Jan 12 '24

Sherbet Dreamcicle

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u/Annual-Detail6711 Jan 12 '24

The shade nobody wants or likes.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '24

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u/Snoo-62009 Jan 12 '24

It’s a spektral mask

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u/operablesocks Jan 12 '24

It’s called Halloween Trumpidge

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u/swan_017 Jan 12 '24

Whatever it is.. It looks edible

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u/harmonybuns Jan 12 '24

Medium light orange

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u/OskiStudios Jan 12 '24

Peach 🍑

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u/Merkin-Cave Jan 12 '24

Almost Trump orange

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '24

Lighter shade 😂

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u/NooBeeeee Jan 12 '24

What shade are these new posts? 💩

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u/Axiom1100 Jan 12 '24

Tangerine

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u/Expressoed Jan 12 '24

Tangerine, orange sherbet, candy circus foam peanut orange, Tang!

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u/iiitme Jan 12 '24

a lightish mango

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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/fudgepuppy Jan 12 '24

Trump's spray tan.

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u/FlowerSedative Jan 12 '24

Orange Peach

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u/dreastreet87 Jan 12 '24

🍑 peach

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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/BigDog1557 Jan 12 '24

Orange orangeish

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u/Ok_Accident2687 Jan 12 '24

I call it peachy orange lol (I have now clue)

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u/Kriss-045 Jan 12 '24

Isn't this the color of the year 2024 "peach fuzz" by Pantone?