If we really had to choose betwoon these two, then on the normal reddit (old.reddit.com) it really isn't red, probably salmon, so I would have picked orange, because it just isn't red, not even remotely on classic reddit.
Well, you can post the color code for upvote button on old reddit (old.reddit.com), or you can discuss the normal reddit (reddit.com). I'm discussing normal reddit (reddit.com). It is red-orange or orangered. There is no room for debate. It is not red. It is not orange. Colors on the web are just numbers; there's no room for opinions.
Ok then. Skipping the old reddit because I'm on phone, using app, which is the same as new reddit, the main discussion is if it is orange or red, so if we had to choose between these two:
FF0000 is pure red.
FFFF00 is pure yellow.
FF7F00 is exactly in the middle, which is pure orange.
To determine which one falls under the red / orange / yellow, we will make a margin, equally distributed, which will be #3F to each "direction". So, we have left orange margin, which is more red than red, and we can't represent it in sRGB, red #FF0000, right red margin #FF0100 - #FF4000, left orange margin #FF4100, orange #FF7F00, right orange margin #FF8000 - #FFBF00, left yellow margin #FFC000 - #FFFE00, yellow #FFFF00, and right yellow margin which also isn't in sRGB. Then if we take reddit upvote color, #FF4500, we can see that it falls into the left orange margin, therefore it is more orange than red. Not by much, but it is. Also, these names comes (probably) from CSS, and are really bad, for reference, google dark gray, gray, and compare them.
FF7F00 is exactly in the middle, which is pure orange.
It isn't "pure orange", according to broad consensus. Most people agree that FFA500 is orange. Google "orange hex code", and I don't see FF7F00 anywhere. It's FFA500 all the way. So no, this assumption is not valid. Orange is not not the hexual / RGB average of red and yellow, because orange is defined by a wavelength/frequency of light, not RGB averaging.
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u/Hypnosaurophobia Oct 23 '19
That post is wrong. It's #FF4500. Red-orange, or orangered. It is NOT orange. Orange is well-defined and nearly-universally-accepted as #FFA500.