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usually the colour (and adjectives in general) comes after the object in French:

le ciel bleu (the blue sky)

les fourmis rouges (the red ants)

deux citrons verts

des voitures noires

!!! but when speaking of the colour itself (as a noun) the order is reversed :

jaune citron (yellow as a lemon)

vert pomme (green as an apple)

Precision by Crisdean

Despite the fact the answer above is correct, I made some changes, in order to precise.

Moreover, in some rare cases, you can use the color (and actually any adjective) before the noun in the figurative sense or sometimes to emphasize the poetic aspect. Thus, you can say "un noir dessein" (dark fate but literaly Black fate) or "une verte plaine" (a green plain).

This is not only valid for the color adjectives

ex : un homme grand means "a tall man" while un grand homme is translated "a great man. Grand, in this case is figurative.

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