# What color is this?

**URL:** <https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-color-is-this/59247>\
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\
**Created:** [December 5, 2008, 8:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-color-is-this/59247 "2008-12-05T08:51:18Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 9:30am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-color-is-this/59247/61 "2008-12-05T09:30:58Z")

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it’s orange

here’s “Porsche Signal Orange” which is the first color the came to mind

![http://www.aceautosports.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/735-911t-signal-orange-012.jpg](http://www.aceautosports.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/735-911t-signal-orange-012.jpg)  
 ![http://www.aceautosports.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/735-911t-signal-orange-012.jpg%5B](http://www.aceautosports.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/735-911t-signal-orange-012.jpg%5B)

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**Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 9:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-color-is-this/59247/62 "2008-12-05T09:34:07Z")

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> [@Geoff](#):
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> And I thought we had something speical…

I’m a swing voter!

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**Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 9:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-color-is-this/59247/63 "2008-12-05T09:35:09Z")

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![http://www.efg2.com/Lab/Graphics/Colors/ScreenColorMix.gif](http://www.efg2.com/Lab/Graphics/Colors/ScreenColorMix.gif)

![http://www.riverartsdistrict.com/radba/images/2008/04/17/colorwheel.jpg](http://www.riverartsdistrict.com/radba/images/2008/04/17/colorwheel.jpg)

its more towards orange than yellow i say

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**Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 9:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-color-is-this/59247/64 "2008-12-05T09:46:16Z")

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orangey-yellow

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**Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 10:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-color-is-this/59247/65 "2008-12-05T10:12:25Z")

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> [@Geoff"](#):
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> (will thinks this is YELLOW and is clearly out of his MELON)

$20 says that in sunlight it looks yellow.

> [@Geoff](#):
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> 1. Friday and I’d like the workday to move along.

4pm beer at Frank’s would help that. Just sayin…

> [@Willybeen](#):
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> ![http://www.mautofied.com/AdPhotos/10121231_2008111231023.JPG](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/3X/4/d/4dfc7611fe594fd85ad597b93f92e36687b3b324.jpeg)
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> **TAKE IT UP WITH KAWASAKI…**
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> **THEY NAMED THE COLOR PEARL SOLAR YELLOW, NOT PEARL SOLAR ORANGE.**

Winnar!

> [@Geoff](#):
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> I can’t wait to photoshop this on Will’s bike:

:lol:

> [@dmoffitt](#):
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> I’m on a color-managed system… It’s orange (at least in that photo).
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> There’s a considerable lack of green (remember kids, additive color aka R+B+G since its a monitor not print) - the shift toward red makes it orange not yellow.

Hey hey hey. Bill Nye, why don’ you come down here to our level. This is NYSpeed. It’s yellow. :lol:

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**Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 10:17am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-color-is-this/59247/66 "2008-12-05T10:17:18Z")

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I wish I could vote 1000 times.

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**Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 10:21am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-color-is-this/59247/67 "2008-12-05T10:21:15Z")

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I think it looks orange on the computer screen in the dealer picture first posted, but in the actual photo in the sunlight it really does look yellow i gotta give that to Will.

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**Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 10:21am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-color-is-this/59247/68 "2008-12-05T10:21:50Z")

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> [@Fry](#):
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> $20 says that in sunlight it looks yellow.

I’ll take that bet! (Will’s sig was shot in full sunlight. Still not yellow)

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**Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 10:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-color-is-this/59247/69 "2008-12-05T10:22:46Z")

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yellow. yellow yellow yellow yellow yellow yellow yellow yellow yellow yellow.

yellow.

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**Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 10:26am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-color-is-this/59247/70 "2008-12-05T10:26:21Z")

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> [@Paulo](#):
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> I wish I could vote 1000 times.

I can. 🤓

But I won’t.

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**Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 10:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-color-is-this/59247/71 "2008-12-05T10:31:09Z")

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Yelange?

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**Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 10:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-color-is-this/59247/72 "2008-12-05T10:57:09Z")

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Orangellow?

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**Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 11:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-color-is-this/59247/73 "2008-12-05T11:00:40Z")

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Crayola had a term for this color:

**YELLOW-ORANGE**

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**Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 11:01am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-color-is-this/59247/74 "2008-12-05T11:01:24Z")

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> [@Nikuk](#):
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> golden rod

^^^

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**Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 11:19am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-color-is-this/59247/75 "2008-12-05T11:19:43Z")

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> [@IanK](#):
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> My Cones are clearly picking up an orange LOL

edited for correct physiology 🙂  
I see orange

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**Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 11:26am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-color-is-this/59247/76 "2008-12-05T11:26:03Z")

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> **[List of Crayola crayon colors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Crayola_crayon_colors)**
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> Since the introduction of Crayola drawing crayons by Binney & Smith in 1903, more than two hundred distinctive colors have been produced in a wide variety of assortments. The table below represents all of the colors found in regular Crayola assortments from 1903 to the present.\[a\] Since the introduction of fluorescent crayons in the 1970s, the standard colors have been complemented by a number of specialty crayon assortments, represented in subsequent tables. Along with the regular packs of cra...

according to that list i think it’s more of a “122 Sunglow #FFCC33” or a “124 Super Happy #FFFF21”.’

edit.

then i scrolled all the way down and saw “153 Yellow Orange #FFAE42”

☹

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**Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 11:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-color-is-this/59247/77 "2008-12-05T11:32:27Z")

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^^^Shit… I was gonna say a mix between Mango Tango and Maize

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**Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 1:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-color-is-this/59247/78 "2008-12-05T13:25:40Z")

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LMAO. THIS THREAD ROCKS!!!

\<3 willybeen

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**Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 2:21pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-color-is-this/59247/79 "2008-12-05T14:21:06Z")

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Its definatley Orange. Your gf and I had a convo about this. We are right, you are wrong!

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**Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 2:48pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-color-is-this/59247/80 "2008-12-05T14:48:48Z")

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> [@timbolin](#):
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> Its definatley Orange. Your gf and I had a convo about this. She was tight, you are wrong!

wat

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