Origins of the orange bitcoin logo

[brainactive]

What are the origins of the orange bitcoin logo? Is there any significance to the orange color?

[mk4]

Here's a good article about the history of Bitcoin's logo: https://decrypt.co/43923/bitcoins-logo-the-story-of-the-big-orange-b

As for the orange color, it's a safe assumption that orange was chosen because it's a really close color match and sort of "modernized" version of the gold color; which is used a lot of times when depicting something valuable(or you know, gold the metal).

[Jawhead999]

The first Bitcoin logo satoshi made is gold colour with some shades like a actual physical coin.

Then bitboy create another design of Bitcoin logo with flat orange colour, it's more simple and readable than the old one. However the orange colour isn't really orange, it's more like golden orange. Probably the colour are not contrast and eye catching, so he change to orange.

Meaning of orange colour

Orange is associated with meanings of joy, warmth, heat, sunshine, enthusiasm, creativity, success, encouragement, change, determination, health, stimulation, happiness, fun, enjoyment, balance, sexuality, freedom, expression, and fascination.

https://www.bourncreative.com/meaning-of-the-color-orange/
https://www.coindesk.com/about-that-orange-b-the-history-of-bitcoins-logos

[TravelMug]

What are the origins of the orange bitcoin logo? Is there any significance to the orange color?

Here is a good discussion about the bitcoin logo:

[1] Evolution of the Bitcoin Logo
[2] Bitcoin logo

And this is the Original logo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bitcoin_logo.svg

@mk4 has explained why the colour is orange.