Carmine (color)

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

Carmine (#960018)

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.

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1 Carmine
2 Medium Carmine
3 Deep Carmine
4 Rich Carmine
5 Carmine Red
6 Deep Carmine Pink
7 Carmine Pink
8 Light Carmine Pink
9 Shades of Carmine Color Comparison Chart
10 Carmine in Human Culture
11 References

Carmine

Carmine
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#960018
^B	(r, g, b)	(150, 0, 24)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(350°, 100%, 59%)
Source		BF2S Color Guide
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

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

Medium Carmine
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#AF4035
^B	(r, g, b)	(175, 64, 53)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(350°, 100%, 64%)
Source		^Unsourced
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the color medium carmine.

Deep Carmine

Deep Carmine
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#A9203E
^B	(r, g, b)	(169, 32, 62)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(357°, 100%, 66%)
Source		Internet
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

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

Rich Carmine
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#D70040
^B	(r, g, b)	(215, 0, 64)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(356°, 94%, 44%)
Source		Internet
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

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

Carmine Red
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#FF0033
^B	(r, g, b)	(255, 0, 51)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(0°, 100%, 76%)
Source		Internet
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

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

Deep Carmine Pink
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#EF3038
^B	(r, g, b)	(239, 48, 56)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(10°, 80%, 80%)
Source		Internet
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

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

Carmine Pink
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#EB4C42
^B	(r, g, b)	(235, 76, 66)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(0°, 75%, 80%)
Source		^Unsourced
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the color carmine pink.

Light Carmine Pink

Light Carmine Pink
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#E66771
^B	(r, g, b)	(230, 103, 97)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(350°, 70%, 80%)
Source		ISCC-NBS
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

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

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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.

v • d • e Shades of red
Alizarin	Amaranth	Burgundy	Cardinal	Carmine	Carnelian	Cerise	Chestnut	Coral red	Crimson

Dark pink	Falu red	Fire engine red	Fuchsia	Magenta	Maroon	Mauve taupe	Orange-red	Persian red	Pink

Persimmon	Red	Red-violet	Rose	Rose madder	Ruby	Rust	Puce	Sangria	Scarlet

Terra cotta	Venetian red	Vermilion

References

^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 192 Color Sample: Page 29 Plate 3 Color Sample K5 (Note: The color sample matches the color shown above as Rich Carmine.)

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