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Deep Carrot Orange Color 286 - #E9692C

Carrot orange is a tint of orange that is a representation of the color of the raw carrot vegetable. The first recorded use of carrot orange as a color name in English was in 1684.

In the RGB color space it is a tertiary color numerically halfway between gamma-compressed red and yellow, as can be seen in the RGB color wheel. Orange pigments are largely in the ochre or cadmium families, and absorb mostly blue light. Varieties of the color orange may differ in hue, chroma (also called saturation, intensity, or colorfulness) or lightness (or value, tone, or brightness), or in two or three of these qualities.