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This is a long standing argument in our family.

I say they're more orange than yellow.

Wife says they're more yellow than orange.

The battle continues.

Looking at the pantone color it appears more yellow to me. I have seen a lot of minor regional variation though, especially when weathering affects things, so they may be orangier in your area. You could always say they're yellange.

People differ in the sensitivity of their cones, I believe. I wonder if that explains such disagreements, or whether it’s merely linguistic.

To me it’s a warm yellow, by the way. It’s much closer in color to a banana than to an orange.

Huh, good point. I sorta wonder if nobody has "perfectly average color" who's vision matches the statistical average. Similar to how no pilot matches the statistically "average pilot size" as the air-force discovered when it first tried standardizing cockpits.

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