Shades Of Orange
Varieties of the color orange may differ in hue, chroma (also called saturation, intensity, or colorfulness) or lightness (or value, tone, or brightness), or in two or three of these qualities. Variations in value are also called tints and shades, a tint being an orange or other hue mixed with white, a shade being mixed with black. A large selection of these various colors is shown below.
Orange pigments are largely in the ochre or cadmium families.
Read more about Shades Of Orange: Orange (color Wheel)
Famous quotes containing the words shades of, shades and/or orange:
“The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Fair is my Love, and cruel as she’s fair
Her brow shades frowns, although her eyes are sunny;
Her smiles are lightning, though her pride despair;
And her disdains are gall, her favours honey.
A modest maid, decked with a blush of honour,
Whose feet do tread green paths of youth and love,”
—Samuel Daniel (1562–1619)
“there’s nothing compared with the ould Orange flute.”
—Unknown. The Old Orange Flute (l. 8)