Color Closeup- Our Oranges

As you can see in the image above, we have all four of our oranges set out. Let's start off with a really common orange item- an orange! The orange is closest to our Persimmon (391) color, since it's more yellow than our Light Orange (36). It's a bit less muted than Persimmon (391), however, and has more yellow in its shade. The orange M&M (the item in the bottom of the image) is almost spot-on with our Orange (34) color. Our Orange (34) tends to be a bit more red than customers expect, rather than a traditional "pumpkin orange". That would be closer to our Light Orange (36) shade. Last for this image, we have our goldfish crackers. These don't really have a good match with our colors here, as they are more yellowish than any of our oranges. 

We have some more orange items to compare!  We had a ripe (orange) bell pepper on hand, as well as some Reese's peanut butter cups, andthe candy corn leftover from our Yellow Color Blog! The Reese's wrapper is cloest to our Flame Orange (35) color, as it is more neon than the others. This is a really hard color to match and it's a hair darker than our Flame Orange (35), but a good comparison nonetheless. The orange stripe on the candy corn is probably closest to our Light Orange (36), but it's right between than and Orange (34). The ripe bell pepper is somewhere between Flame Orange (35) and Perismmon (391). It's not as bright as Flame Orange (35), but not as muted as Persimmon (391). The color is between those two shades.

In the image above, we have a carrot, some candy fruit slices, and a slice of American cheese. The candy fruit slices are almost spot-on with Flame Orange (35). The carrot, on the other hand, is really close to Light Orange (36). The American cheese has no good  match, much like the goldfish crackers, as it's too yellowish to compare to any of our orange shades.

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