Buff (colour) The Bibby Line and the Fyffes Line are two of several firms to use the same "buff with a black top" scheme as White Star, but with a similar lack of certainty as to the exact shade used and how this differed from the famous White Star scheme. Buff (colour) Buff is the pale orange-brown colour of the undyed leather of several animals. As an RYB quaternary colour, it is the colour produced by an equal mix of the tertiary colours citron and russet. The first recorded use of the word "buff" to describe a colour was in "The London
Orange (colour) orange is named after the appearance of the ripe orange fruit. The word comes from the Old French "orange", from the old term for the fruit, "pomme d'orange". The French word, in turn, comes from the Italian "arancia", based on Arabic "nāranj", derived from the Sanskrit "naranga". The first recorded use of "orange" as a colour name in English was in 1512, in a will now filed with the Public Record Office. Prior to this word being introduced to the English-speaking world, "saffron" already existed in the English language. "Crog" also referred to the saffron colour, so that orange was