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Day-Glo

American  
[day-gloh] / ˈdeɪˌgloʊ /
Trademark.
  1. a brand of pigments and other products that exhibit fluorescence in daylight.


Day-Glo British  

noun

    1. a brand of fluorescent colouring materials, as of paint

    2. ( as modifier )

      Day-Glo colours

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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But TV had never seen anything quite like the Krofft shows, with its Day-Glo aesthetic, crazy conceptions and combination of puppets, costume puppets and costumed human characters into a half-hour comedy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026

ITV's gamble on the new format turned into a Day-Glo phenomenon and became, the childhood gymnastics champion says proudly, "a Saturday-night ritual".

From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2024

Your little ones might not catch the spiritual drift of Lolita Chakrabarti’s workmanlike script, but they’ll delight in the Ark’s worth of Day-Glo fish, diaphanous birds and lifelike quadrupeds.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 30, 2023

Gallery in Melbourne until May 27, explores that question through the work of Australian designers of the 1980s, including Aslanis and Cozzolino, across Day-Glo protest posters, koala-patterned suits and spikily postmodern club furniture.

From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2023

The top athletes got hoodies too, Day-Glo orange with double helix lightning bolts on the sleeves.

From "Burning Blue" by Paul Griffin

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