Well, apart from the rules on phal color, I would consider it a kind of coral orange color. I come from a design/art background, and really, other than several standard colors, not many colors actually have names. The eye sees many thousand colors, and if they all had names, we'd be in trouble just trying to remember the vocabulary. Some colors are named after a physical object they share the color with, chartruse is named after a French liquor, goldenrod is named after the plant, coral is named after the sea creature skeleton coral, and colors like ocher, red ocher, sienna, and so on are named after certain muds, clays, earths and so on.
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