"Red" vs "orange" redux

[Dennis R. Preston]

Day-Glo colors, sold in my parent's maw-and-paw paint store when I
was a just a little fart, predate NASA considerably.

dInIs

>Bill.Mullins wrote:
>
>>Isn't this about the same shade as "hunter orange" or "blaze orange"?
>>(Deer hunters around here are required to wear some number of square
>>inches of "blaze orange" while in the woods.  Some of them still manage
>>to get shot, though.)
>
>I remember this (about 1961) as 'Daylight Fluorescent Orange', a new color
>technology soon to be shortened to 'Day-glo Orange.'
>
>Day-glo
>
>(Other 'day-glo' colors were soon available, as well).  May have been a
>NASA offshoot (developed to color Tang!).
>
>Fire engines, OTOH, switched from fire engine red to a sickly pale green
>(among other odd colors).  Guess it don't pay to fight fire with
>fire-red/orange.  Thinking of day-glo Tang, now I'm wondering if fire
>engine puke green was developed to color Gator-Ade.
>
>
>Michael McKernan


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