2023-05-31 Snargl 2 minutes 4 seconds
What color is Cadmium orange?
Cadmium orange is a bright, warm and opaque color that belongs to the cadmium family of pigments.
It has a hexadecimal code of #ED872D, which means it is composed of 92.94% red, 52.94% green and 17.65% blue in the RGB color space.
In the CMYK color space, it has 0% cyan, 43% magenta, 81% yellow and 7% black.
It has a hue angle of 28.1 degrees, a saturation of 84.2% and a lightness of 55.3%.
Cadmium orange was discovered in the 19th century by the German chemist Friedrich Stromeyer, who synthesized it from cadmium sulfide, a by-product of zinc ore smelting.
Cadmium orange is a synthetic pigment that is highly toxic and mostly used for coloring glass or plastics.
It is also used by some artists as a vivid and stable paint color.
Example of the palette with the Cadmium orange color
Top 5 color shades of the illustration. Arranged in descending order of frequency of occurrence (first - more often, last - more rare).
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NCS (Natural Color System)
Example of the palette with the Cadmium orange color
Top 5 color shades of the illustration. Arranged in descending order of frequency of occurrence (first - more often, last - more rare).
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NCS (Natural Color System)
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