"Red" vs "orange" redux

[Mullins, Bill]

"day-glo" is in the OED at 1951, and in ProQuest earlier still.

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> 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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