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If you
mix yellow with red, something exiting, even provocative comes into existence,
something that shines like yellow and hits your eyes in an nearly aggressive
way. Orange is not as hot as red, it reminds more on cosy colour of a
fireplace. But it is warmer, more sun riped and more perfect than yellow.
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Orange
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pleasure
and obtrusiveness
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Orange
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colour
of the setting sun
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Orange
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optimism,
open-mind, youth, sociability, health, self-confidence, power, lasting
warmth, colour of the Caribbean, the Samba, the cheerful open-minded
meeting
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Orange
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shining,
hearty, ripe, full, alive, well-rounded, blazing, warm, youthful
and vain as well
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Orange
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easy living,
obtrusiveness, excess often is said to be disrespectable and cheap
(objects made of plastic yes, but a Mercedes of class "S" in orange
- unthinkable)
Quite different in the Netherlands: there the orange is the national
colour and the colour of the kingdom ("oranje" = "orange") Orange
flags are hoisted at the birthday of a royal member.
In Eire the colour orange has a religious-political meaning (Protestant
"Orangemen" in Northern Ireland
In the States: together with black the colour of Halloween
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Orange
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Safety
People working in road construction, cleaning streets or garbage
men wear working clothes in orange colour. This colour protects
because of its flashy shining Also the machines, used in road construction
and the cars for garbage have the same colour. The more the orange
of workers and garbage men have been used the more it disappeared
from the daily fashion. As long as cars are seen as reputation object,
nearly nobody will select the orange colour as paint finish, although
it would mean more safety.
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Unlike green and purple,
which are known as independent colours with their own symbolism, the orange
colour always remained as a subordinated mix-colour in the European culture.
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