Carmine (color)

This article is about the color. For information about the pigment see Carmine.

Carmine is the general term for a particularly deep red color. Some Rubies are colored the color shown below as rich carmine. The deep red color shown below as carmine is the color of the raw unprocessed pigment, but lighter, richer, or brighter colors are produced when the raw pigment is processed, some of which are shown below.

Carmine

At right is displayed the color carmine. This is the color of the raw unprocessed carmine pigment.

The first recorded use of carmine as a color name in English was in 1523. ^[1]

Medium Carmine

At right is displayed the color medium carmine.

Deep Carmine

At right is displayed the color deep carmine. This is the color usually called carmine in oil paints.

The source of this color is the following website of oil paints for sale:[1].

Rich Carmine

At right is displayed the color rich carmine. This is the color shown as carmine in A Dictionary of Color (cited below).

This color is also called Chinese carmine.

This is the color usually called carmine in fashion and interior design.

The source of this color is the red color template in the Chinese Wikipedia article, accessible at the left of the English Wikipedia article on red under zhongguoan in Chinese characters--since it starts with a z, it is the last item on the foreign language list.

Carmine Red

At right is displayed the color carmine red. This color is popular among artists. This is the color usually called carmine by watercolor artists.

The source of this color is a watercolor color swatch called light carmine displayed at the following website: [2].

Deep Carmine Pink

At right is displayed the color deep carmine pink. This color was used for men's shirts during the psychedelic 1960s.

The source of this color is picture of a "deep carmine pink" flower at the following website: [3]

Carmine Pink

At right is displayed the color carmine pink.

Light Carmine Pink

At right is displayed the color light carmine pink.

This color is equivalent to the Prismacolor colored pencil color called Carmine Red (PC 926).

The source of this color is the ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955)--Color dictionary used by stamp collectors to identify the colors of stamps--See sample of the color Carmine Pink [called a shade of Carmine Rose] (color sample #27) displayed on indicated page:[4].

Shades of Carmine Color Comparison Chart

• Light Carmine Pink (Hex: #E66761) (RGB: 230, 103, 97)
• Carmine Pink (Hex: #EB4C42) (RGB: 235, 76, 66)
• Deep Carmine Pink (Hex: #EF3038) (RGB: 239, 48, 36)
• Carmine Red (Hex: #FF0033) (RGB: 255, 0, 51)
• Rich Carmine (Chinese Carmine) (Hex: #D70040) (RGB: 215, 0, 64)
• Deep Carmine (Hex: #A9203E) (RGB: 169, 32, 62)
• Medium Carmine (Hex: #AF4035) (RGB: 175, 64, 53)
• Carmine (Hex: #960018) (RGB: 150, 0, 24)

Carmine in Human Culture

Crime Scene Investigation

• The name is often applied to descriptions of blood, because it is the color of dried blood.

Sports

• Carmines is occasionally used as a nickname for the Boston Red Sox.
• Carmine is an original colorway of the Air Jordan VI sneaker from 1991.

Television

• The color of the Redshirt (stock character) of Star Trek's shirts is Carmine. In addition, as a play on this, a quickly-dying soldier in Gears of War is named Carmine

References

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