4 Out of 5 People Are —– WRONG!!! Wrong, wrong, wrong, I say.
In the painting of my exercise room (a.k.a. Christi’s old bedroom), we collected brochures showing rooms painted in different color palettes. The colors we selected are: Popcorn, hay, Arizona, and California Poppy. Everybody knows that popcorn is white, right? Right. We all agree on that. The hay color is a beige-khaki, tan-ish color. We all agree on that. California poppy is red. Once again, we all agree on that. So far, so good.
However, there is a slight misperception of the definition of the color Arizona.
Now, anybody who knows anything about colors know that there are three basic colors: red, yellow, blue. If you mix yellow and blue you get the green family. If you mix red and yellow you get the orange relatives. The more (or less) red you mix in will result in a deeper or lighter orange.
In the case of the color Arizona, there is a smidgen of red which makes it golden yellow. Do you hear me folks, golden yellow. NOT ORANGE!!! My husband thinks the color is orange. (Aren’t men color blind when it comes to the color red?) My son thinks the color is orange. (Again a masculine perception.) My sweet daughter-in-law thinks the color is orange. (I’ll forgive her because her starry-in-love-with-my-son eyes are aren’t seeing things in their correct perspective.) But even my own mother thinks the color is apricot! Mom, how can you desert me in such an important issue as this??
Sigh.
Regardless of what others think, I’m still going to call the room the ‘Sun Room.’ I am going to see the wall as being golden yellow. They can think all that they want that the color is orange. After all, isn’t life really just how you perceive things???
But also many sun colors are shades of orange. So, even if it’s not yellow, it’s still definitely on the sun spectrum.
So true. Only one who lives in Arizona would know this . . . (but it still is more yellow than orange . . .)