cadmium orange

American  

noun

1. a yellow color approaching orange.

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Etymology

Origin of cadmium orange

First recorded in 1890–95

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cadmium orange

There are the products of nineteenth-century chemical innovation—viridian green, cadmium orange, and the chrome yellow with which van Gogh was infatuated but which, over time, has begun to darken his sunflowers.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 27, 2018

I created it when I spilled some cadmium orange on my linoleum tile floor.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the same branch of art, illumination, cadmium orange, opposed to viridian, presents a most dazzling contrast, especially if relieved by purple.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas

A most beautiful olive brown, soft and rich, it is admirably adapted for autumnal foliage tints and the like, either alone or compounded with burnt Sienna or cadmium orange.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas

For example, there may be formed from the primaries, a compound of aureolin, rose madder, and ultramarine; or from the secondaries, a mixture of cadmium orange, viridian, and madder purple.

From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Salter, Thomas