![]() But none of these dominated, and in the 1390s, Chaucer still used “His colour was a light tawny, betwixt yellow and red,” to describe a fox. ![]() Tawny was an option as well, especially for brown-ish oranges. Citrine, a precious stone, was first used as a color word in 1386.Ĭrog, a yellow-ish orange similar to saffron, was a thing for a while. Saffron, another food inspired shade, was first recorded as a color word in 1200. A few other names were attempted for these colors, but none really stuck. But it wasn’t a particularly popular color descriptor. Prior to the naming of orange, orange things still had to sometimes be described in more detail than “red”. Obviously the wavelength range of 590–620 nm existed in visible light, but we weren’t calling it orange. Simple: when those phrases were coined, orange hadn’t become a color yet. ![]() Even Mars, which we call the red planet, is more of an orange color in the majority of photos. ![]()
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