Don't think too much about your answer.

Just go with your gut feeling: What name would you give to the color above? Or to the grid of variations in color here below?

To me, the color swatches above seem yellow. But that might just be me. Or it might just be Americans. I'd be especially curious to know what Dutch people think of these colors -- if they would also naturally trend towards "yellow" or possibly more towards "orange."

All of these colors are lifted from photographs of traffic lights, both in the United States and in the Netherlands. I used Photoshop to select a sampling of color from the brightest, most intense part of photograph featuring a traffic light with the middle segment of the signal illuminated, and that's how I generated the swatches above.

So the reason I ask the question about identifying this color is that I'm intrigued by the cultural differences on this particular point. Americans talk about this part of the traffic light as being the "yellow light," whereas Dutch people (or my American children, raised here in the Netherlands) talk about the same segment as being the "orange light" (oranje licht).

Honestly, I don't think of it as a question of accuracy but rather of perception. I just think it's interesting that the two cultures see it two different ways. It's true for a lot of different elements of culture, not just the color of traffic lights.

So what color would you say it is? Yellow? Orange? Or something else entirely?