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Carmine (color)

Carmine
 
Carmine.JPG
Powdered carmine pigment
About these coordinates     Color coordinates
Hex triplet #960018
sRGBB  (rgb) (150, 0, 24)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k) (0, 75, 42, 1)
HSV       (h, s, v) (350°, 100%, 59%)
Source Pourpre.com
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)
Wild Watermelon
 
About these coordinates     Color coordinates
Hex triplet #FC6C85
sRGBB  (rgb) (252, 108, 133)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k) (0, 57, 42, 1)
HSV       (h, s, v) (350°, 57%, 99%)
Source Crayola
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)
Radical Red
 
About these coordinates     Color coordinates
Hex triplet #FF355E
sRGBB  (rgb) (255, 53, 94)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k) (0, 79, 63, 0)
HSV       (h, s, v) (348°, 79%, 100%)
Source Crayola
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)
Paradise Pink
 
About these coordinates     Color coordinates
Hex triplet #E63E62
sRGBB  (rgb) (230, 62, 98)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k) (0, 73, 57, 10)
HSV       (h, s, v) (347°, 73%, 90%)
Source Pantone TPX
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)
Carmine (M&P)
 
About these coordinates     Color coordinates
Hex triplet #D70040
sRGBB  (rgb) (215, 0, 64)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k) (0, 100, 7-, 16)
HSV       (h, s, v) (342°, 100%, 84%)
Source Maerz and Paul
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)
Carmine (G&S)
 
About these coordinates     Color coordinates
Hex triplet #D10047
sRGBB  (rgb) (209, 0, 71)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k) (0, 100, 66, 18)
HSV       (h, s, v) (340°, 100%, 82%)
Source Gallego and Sanz
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)
Pictorial Carmine
 
About these coordinates     Color coordinates
Hex triplet #C30B4E
sRGBB  (rgb) (195, 11, 78)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k) (0, 94, 60, 24)
HSV       (h, s, v) (338°, 94%, 76%)
Source Gallego and Sanz
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)
Carmine (JTC)
 
About these coordinates     Color coordinates
Hex triplet #9D2933
sRGBB  (rgb) (157, 41, 51)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k) (0, 74, 68, 38)
HSV       (h, s, v) (355°, 74%, 62%)
Source JTC
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Carmine is the general term for some deep red colours that are very slightly purplish but are generally slightly closer to red than the colour crimson is. Some rubies are coloured the colour shown below as rich carmine. The deep dark red color shown at right as carmine is the colour of the raw unprocessed pigment, but lighter, richer, or brighter colours are produced when the raw pigment is processed, some of which are shown below.

The first recorded use of carmine as a color name in English was in 1523.

The color wild watermelon is displayed at right.

Ultra red is a color formulated by Crayola in 1972. In 1990, the name of the color was changed to wild watermelon.

With a hue code of 350, this color is within the range of carmine colors.

This color is supposed to be fluorescent, but there is no mechanism for displaying fluorescence on a computer screen.

The Crayola crayon color radical red is displayed at right.

The color radical red was formulated by Crayola in 1990.

With a hue code of 348, this color is within the range of carmine colors.

This color is supposed to be fluorescent, but there is no mechanism for displaying fluorescence on a computer screen.

Displayed at right is the color paradise pink.

The source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #17-1755 TPX—Paradise Pink.

Since it has a hue code of 347, the color paradise pink is within the range of carmine colors.

The rich carmine color tone displayed at right matches the color shown as carmine in the 1930 book A Dictionary of Color (cited below). This color is also called Chinese carmine. This is the color usually referred to as carmine in fashion and interior design.

Spanish carmine is the color that is called Carmin (the Spanish word for "carmine") in the Guía de coloraciones (Guide to colorations) by Rosa Gallego and Juan Carlos Sanz, a color dictionary published in 2005 that is widely popular in the Hispanophone realm.


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