Good. That is exactly what I consider orange, and that’s closest in hue to the color of the NY license plate that was linked to earlier.
I don’t know. On my computer and color calibrated monitor, they are the same (I just checked and took a screen shot and compared the RGB values). Maybe there’s some weird RGB tagging colorspace issue going on where it shows up differently in different browsers. Mine is saved as a tagged sRGB, which is the standard color space. At any rate, you can see my little swatch of colors below. Don’t you agree that what is labeled as “orange” most closely resembles the New York plate?
Ah ha. I figured it out. It is the difference in browser and how it handles color spaces. You can see a screenshot here. The one on the left is opened in Safari; the one on the right is my usual browser, Chrome. So the browsers appear to be honoring the color spaces in a different manner. Not sure if it’s a matter of what they do with untagged RGB or non-sRGB tagged images.
At any rate, even those orange pictures are showing up on the reddish side of orange, but not the pure red. We’re looking at hue values of 7-15, so something like 255,48,0 to 255,64,0 if it were fully saturated and bright.
I rechecked the plate photos on both browsers, and there is a difference in the way they are rendered there, too, but less extreme. Instead of hue value of 28-30 (colorwheel orange) it’s showing up as 32-34 (very slightly yellowish orange.)
ETA: Meanwhile, I checked my uploaded photos on both Safari and Chrome, and they both look exactly the same on both browsers. But those are properly tagged as sRGB, so it definitely is an issue of colorspace tagging and how the browsers handle it if it’s untagged or if the colorspace is not sRGB.
The hundreds of current NY plates I saw in the parking lot on a daily basis, while working in NY in 2015, were blue and orange to my eyes. I voted as such.
The handful of NYPD guys I worked with in my Air Force Reserve squadron called them blue and orange (along with, incidentally, the few dozen NY residents in the squadron).
Thanks for that. I just remembered that, quite some time ago, the colors were somewhat similar, but not quite as eye-assaulting as “Vampire Gold”.
But the new PA plates explain it - PA went to blue on white, so we had to abandon our blue on white color scheme and go with something else. Something hideous, yet simultaneously uninspired.
The current NY plates do look orange-y. In direct sunlight, they appear to be more on the yellow/gold side. Neither is particularly attractive by any stretch of the imagination.
I didn’t vote in the poll because I’m not altogether sure what this color is supposed to be, and the OP didn’t put up an “I don’t know, but it’s repulsive” option.
Those appear to be three variations of the same shot (taken, unless I miss my guess, at 53rd Street and Third Avenue).
I have no idea what they’ve been put through between being taken and being displayed on my monitor.
I will say that the middle shot is the only one that looks remotely closed to the color of a New York City taxicab, and it looks yellow to me.
Maybe we’re getting into semantics and definitions here. “Yellow” is the color a NYC cab is. New York license plates are not the same color as a taxicab. I’d still call them orange.
I agree that the color that I normally think of as orange actually is actually more red. But I think that makes sense. We see yellow/green much better than other colors. It makes sense that what we perceive as halfway in between would be more red than yellow.
Plus, it’s not as if “orange” is based on a perfect mixture of 1 part green light to 2 parts red. It’s based on fruit. And the fruit is usually slightly more red than orange.
Then there’s factoring in how different brightness values affect things. That’s just weird, since, to my eye at least, you have to add red to yellow to keep it from shifting towards green as you add more black. And a brighter orange looks more and more yellow.
Interesting. Around here, I would say most of the oranges (like the naval types) are very slightly on the yellow side of orange, kind of like the picture of the orange I linked to earlier, or this photo. But not all of them. Some are definitely on the red side, but not extension cord orange.
