Orange (colour) colours on a television or computer screen), orange is generated by combining high intensity red light with a lower intensity green light, with the blue light turned off entirely. Orange is a tertiary colour which is numerically halfway between gamma-compressed red and yellow, as can be seen in the . Regarding painting, blue is the complementary colour to orange. As many painters of the 19th century discovered, blue and orange reinforce each other. The painter Vincent van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo that in his paintings, he was trying to reveal "the oppositions of blue with orange, of red
Orange (colour) signal fire, historically used at night while smoke was used during the day, to communicate with distant army units. In the Indonesian Air Force, the Air force infantry and special forces corps known as Paskhas uses Orange as their beret colour. Several corporate brands use orange, such as Blogger, Fanta, FedEx, GlaxoSmithKline, Gulf, Hankook, Harley-Davidson, ING, Jägermeister, Nickelodeon, Orange, the Women's National Basketball Association, The Home Depot and TNT. Orange, because of its common association with activity and visibility, is a popular colour for sports teams. Orange (colour) Orange is the colour between yellow and red on the spectrum of