What colour is orange fruit

Reader Erica wrote in with a question about oranges. Is the fruit named for its color, or is the color named for the fruit? The citrus definitely got named first.

Orange is the colour between red and yellow in the spectrum of light on the traditional painters' colour wheel. It is named after the fruit of the same name. While the name origins of many fruits are a mystery, the orange seems like a no-brainer.

The colour orange is synonymous with the citrus fruit which shares its name and hue.

But do you know if the name for the fruit or the name for . Most oranges are a purply- gold colour, suffused with cat-shit brown and just a hint of jet black. The colour orange takes its name from the orange fruit. Earlier, the English speaking world would refer to the orange color as . The question of orange (the fruit? the color?) may not be as profound as the chicken and egg debate, but we wanted to know: which came first, . From whatever angle you view the fruit you intercept orange light. Human color vision can be readily understood in terms of a very simple .