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  2. Scarlet (color) - Wikipedia

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    This is a variation on the standard RGB or Hex combination that produces a truer Scarlet color on some monitors. It is slightly more orange than the standard Scarlet RGB value of 255, 36, 0, but does give a truer color on displays where the red dominates over the orange and would otherwise make the color appear more as a normal red rather than ...

  3. Kermes (dye) - Wikipedia

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    The English word for the biblical "scarlet" (Exodus 25:4, etc.) is a literal translation from the Septuagint (Koinē Greek: κόκκινον = kókkinon, meaning "scarlet"). The original Hebrew text ( tola'at shani ) translates to "scarlet worm", indicating that the scarlet color is derived from an insect, a requirement which was formalized in ...

  4. List of colors by shade - Wikipedia

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    Magenta is variously defined as a purplish-red, reddish-purple, or a mauvish–crimson color. On color wheels of the RGB and CMY color models, it is located midway between red and blue, opposite green. Complements of magenta are evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 500–530 nm.

  5. List coloring - Wikipedia

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    For a graph G, let χ(G) denote the chromatic number and Δ(G) the maximum degree of G.The list coloring number ch(G) satisfies the following properties.. ch(G) ≥ χ(G).A k-list-colorable graph must in particular have a list coloring when every vertex is assigned the same list of k colors, which corresponds to a usual k-coloring.

  6. Scarlet - Wikipedia

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    Scarlet may refer to: Scarlet (cloth), a type of woollen cloth common in medieval England; Scarlet (color), a bright tone of red that is slightly toward orange, named after the cloth; Scarlet (dye), the dye used to give the cloth its color; Scarlet (orca), a southern resident killer whale

  7. Talk:Scarlet (color) - Wikipedia

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    It seems to me that the article was merely attempting to cite an early historical reference to the color scarlet. The Hebrew names 'shaniy' and 'tolaath,' which are translated 'scarlet' in English versions of the Bible, refer to the insect larvae that were used in antiquity to produce scarlet dye.

  8. Crimson - Wikipedia

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    Crimson is a rich, deep red color, inclining to purple. [2] It originally meant the color of the kermes dye produced from a scale insect, Kermes vermilio, but the name is now sometimes also used as a generic term for slightly bluish-red colors that are between red and rose. It is the national color of Nepal.

  9. Scarlett (given name) - Wikipedia

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    The color scarlet symbolizes courage, passion, force, joy and heat. The cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church wear scarlet as a color of the blood of Christ and the Christian martyrs. It gained popularity due to the character Scarlett O'Hara in Margaret Mitchell's best-selling novel Gone with the Wind and the film adaptation.