Orange Color Animals

Displayed to the left is the actual colour of the outer skin of a typical orange. This colour is called orange peel. It is the same colour as the fruit for which it was named.
A discussion of the difference between the colour orange (the colour halfway between red and yellow, i.e. colour wheel orange, RGB #FF7F00, and the colour orange peel (the actual colour of the outer skin of an orange), may be found in Maerz and Paul.
The first recorded use of orange peel as a colour name in English was in 1839.