XKCD is a Randall Munroe’s Web comic and one of his online projects was a color name survey with around quarter of a million participants who suggested (after some heavy filtering) 954 names for different colors, including Vermillion. In general, it has more of the blue than carmine.Īnd there is also a shade of red called Vermillion (double l) with HEX value #F4320C listed in XKCD list of colors. Today it is generally accepted the word for a family of strong red colors with a pinch of blueish tone. The origin of word crimson is similar as the word carmine – it comes from the name of the insect Kermes vermilio (please note: there is a family of vermilion colors too and the list is coming soon!), which was originally used as the source of dye. #78184A Crimson (NBS ISCC TC) aka Deep Purplish Red Yes, they have slightly different perception of scarlet Down Under! It’s only fair to also mention scarlett with a double t before we continue with the family of crimson colors. #FD0E35 Scarlet aka Tractor Red aka Torch Red (Crayola, since 1998)īy the way AS stands for Australian Standard. #FF3300 Scarlet (Websafe Hex 3) aka Nectarine You can bet there are more than five shades of scarlet, and we are continuing with another set with names of various origins. If we can say carmine is slightly purplish, scarlet is more inclined to the orange, what means it has some yellow instead of blue in the mix.
#A40000 Scarlet Red 3 aka Dark Candy Apple Red #CC0000 Scarlet Red 2 aka Boston University Red It’s pretty clear different shades of carmine came into the market way before this color actually got any kind of official name. There are few other words with essentially the same meaning, often with vague origins, sometimes coming from raw materials, sometimes mistranslated, and always leading to more variety at naming, what gives more opportunity at the description on one hand but also more confusion on the other.Ĭarmine color got its name after several types of insects (cochineal) which were powdered and boiled in sodium or ammonia carbonate or cooked in boiled water with the addition of different chemicals. Now it’s clear the word red simply can’t describe the color because there are so many nuances. #E60026 Red (G&S … Rosa Gallego & Juan Carlos Sanz) If at certain moments computers displayed only 16 different colors, today’s graphic cards show more than four million colors and they would produce even more, but the human eye can hardly recognize an even small portion of them. And there was, of course, nonstop progress in technology. Then there were different interests (and powers) of groups who tried to establish the standards.
First of all, we are dealing with word meanings, which can be similarly subjective like the perception of colors. These attempts were only partly successful. There were several attempts to make a list of colors where everybody understands what color is associated with each specific name. Unfortunately, these names rely too much on personal preferences and lack of absolute values, what could help to standardize a perception of a specific color in all its shades, tones, tints etc. While the names are relatively explicit, we still can’t seriously work without their HEX values.ĭarker tones of red are verging to the purple or brown very soon.
From the user’s point of view, an adjective like dark gives much more sense than number 4. Adding a number to the name is a simple and effective solution, but doesn’t give any additional info to the end user. The red color is so old, in some of the languages (like Latin) the word for ‘colored’ and ‘red’ is actually the same.Īs you probably already know, there are several standards dealing with Web colors and even at so basic color as red is, we soon bump into the lack of expressions. Color red, after all, is the most intense color and actually the oldest in all known languages (right behind black and white, which are, technically speaking not real colors). If you find this list useful, please share it with your friends, readers of your blog or any other people who may find it interesting. Our basic aim is to provide a fast comparison between red colors for a wide variety of users, being artists, designers or just curious minds. Please note, in spite of careful checking of dozens of resources there may still be some discrepancies between this list (most complete in the WEB at the moment with 445 named red colors and still rising) and other respectful sites, dealing with colors and design. They are organized by logical groups, depending on their similarities, name origins, or other common characteristics.
Here is the longest list of red colors of different shades, tones and tints in the world, all with their official / common / trivial names and HEX codes. Hundreds of Red Shades with Names and Hex Codes
0 kommentar(er)
