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The color amber is a pure Chroma (color), chroma color, located on the color wheel midway between the colors of yellow and Orange (colour), orange. The color name is derived from the material also known as amber, which is commonly found in a range of yellow-orange-brown-red colors; likewise, as a color ''amber'' can refer to a range of yellow-orange colors. In English language, English, the first recorded use of the term as a color name, rather than a reference to the specific substance, was in 1500.
In the past, the ECE amber definition was more restrictive than the SAE definition, but the current ECE definition is identical to the more permissive SAE standard. The SAE formally uses the term "yellow amber", though the color is most often referred to as "yellow". This is not the same as selective yellow, a color used in some fog lamps and headlamps.
ECE Convention on Road Traffic, 1968, p. 63
/ref> as follows: Recent revisions to the ECE regulations have aligned ECE Amber with SAE Yellow, defined as follows: The entirety of these definitions lie outside the gamut of the sRGB color space — such a pure color cannot be represented using RGB primaries. The color box shown above is a desaturated approximation, produced by taking the centroid of the standard definition and moving it towards the D65 white point, until it meets the sRGB gamut triangle.
Computers
* The Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) VT220 computer terminals were available with amber phosphors in their Cathode ray tube, CRTs.
Interior design
* The original Amber Room in the Catherine Palace of Tsarskoye Selo near Saint Petersburg was a complete chamber decoration of amber panels backed with gold leaf and mirrors. Due to its singular beauty, it was sometimes dubbed the "Eighth Wonder of the World".
Sports
* In Gaelic games, Armagh GAA, Armagh play in a darker amber color (the amber that is prevalent in the Irish flag), Offaly GAA, Offaly play in the original colors of the Irish flag (green, white and amber) and Kilkenny GAA, Kilkenny also play in black and amber, albeit a more yellow amber.
* Amber is a color worn by English football clubs Hull City A.F.C., Hull City AFC, Bradford City A.F.C., Bradford City AFC, Barnet F.C., Barnet FC, Shrewsbury Town F.C., Shrewsbury Town FC (As part of stripes), Mansfield Town F.C., Mansfield Town, Cambridge United F.C., Cambridge United FC and Sutton United F.C., Sutton United. The color is also worn by the Scottish football club Motherwell F.C., Motherwell FC, as well as many other sports clubs around the world.
Road traffic engineering, Traffic engineering
* Amber is used in traffic lights and Automotive lighting, turn signals.
Theatre
* Amber, sometimes named "Bastard color, Bastard Amber", along with 'Moonlight Blue', is one of the two most common colors used in stage lighting.
UNECE Regulation No. 6: Uniform Provisions Concerning the Approval of Direction Indicators for Motor Vehicles and their Trailers (E/ECE/324-E/ECE/TRANS/505/Rev.1/Add.5/Rev.4)
http://www.unece.org/trans/main/wp29/wp29regs/r006r4a1e.pd
UNECE Regulation No. 48: Uniform Provisions Concerning the Approval of Vehicles with Regard to the Installation of Lighting and Light-Signalling Devices (E/ECE/324-E/ECE/TRANS/505/Rev.1/Add.47/Rev.3/Amend.2)
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The color amber is a pure Chroma (color), chroma color, located on the color wheel midway between the colors of yellow and Orange (colour), orange. The color name is derived from the material also known as amber, which is commonly found in a range of yellow-orange-brown-red colors; likewise, as a color ''amber'' can refer to a range of yellow-orange colors. In English language, English, the first recorded use of the term as a color name, rather than a reference to the specific substance, was in 1500.
SAE/ECE amber
Amber is one of several technically defined colors used in automotive signal lamps. In North America, SAE International, SAE standard J578 governs the colorimetry of vehicle lights, while outside North America the internationalized European ECE regulations hold force. Both standards designate a range of orange-yellow hues in the CIE 1931 color space, CIE color space as "amber".
In the past, the ECE amber definition was more restrictive than the SAE definition, but the current ECE definition is identical to the more permissive SAE standard. The SAE formally uses the term "yellow amber", though the color is most often referred to as "yellow". This is not the same as selective yellow, a color used in some fog lamps and headlamps.
Formal definitions
Previously, ECE amber was defined according to the 1968 Convention on Road Traffic,/ref> as follows: Recent revisions to the ECE regulations have aligned ECE Amber with SAE Yellow, defined as follows: The entirety of these definitions lie outside the gamut of the sRGB color space — such a pure color cannot be represented using RGB primaries. The color box shown above is a desaturated approximation, produced by taking the centroid of the standard definition and moving it towards the D65 white point, until it meets the sRGB gamut triangle.
Cultural use
Computers
* The Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) VT220 computer terminals were available with amber phosphors in their Cathode ray tube, CRTs.
Interior design
* The original Amber Room in the Catherine Palace of Tsarskoye Selo near Saint Petersburg was a complete chamber decoration of amber panels backed with gold leaf and mirrors. Due to its singular beauty, it was sometimes dubbed the "Eighth Wonder of the World".
Sports
* In Gaelic games, Armagh GAA, Armagh play in a darker amber color (the amber that is prevalent in the Irish flag), Offaly GAA, Offaly play in the original colors of the Irish flag (green, white and amber) and Kilkenny GAA, Kilkenny also play in black and amber, albeit a more yellow amber.
* Amber is a color worn by English football clubs Hull City A.F.C., Hull City AFC, Bradford City A.F.C., Bradford City AFC, Barnet F.C., Barnet FC, Shrewsbury Town F.C., Shrewsbury Town FC (As part of stripes), Mansfield Town F.C., Mansfield Town, Cambridge United F.C., Cambridge United FC and Sutton United F.C., Sutton United. The color is also worn by the Scottish football club Motherwell F.C., Motherwell FC, as well as many other sports clubs around the world.
Road traffic engineering, Traffic engineering
* Amber is used in traffic lights and Automotive lighting, turn signals.
Theatre
* Amber, sometimes named "Bastard color, Bastard Amber", along with 'Moonlight Blue', is one of the two most common colors used in stage lighting.
See also
*List of colorsReferences
External links
UNECE Regulation No. 6: Uniform Provisions Concerning the Approval of Direction Indicators for Motor Vehicles and their Trailers (E/ECE/324-E/ECE/TRANS/505/Rev.1/Add.5/Rev.4)
http://www.unece.org/trans/main/wp29/wp29regs/r006r4a1e.pd
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