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  2. Vermilion - Wikipedia

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    Vermilion (sometimes vermillion) [1] is a color family and pigment most often used between antiquity and the 19th century from the powdered mineral cinnabar (a form of mercury sulfide). It is synonymous with red orange , which often takes a modern form, but is 11% brighter (at full brightness).

  3. List of colors (alphabetical) - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 14 December 2024. For other color lists, see Lists of colors. This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. Please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources. Find sources: "List of colors" alphabetical ...

  4. Category:Quaternary colors - Wikipedia

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    Vermilion; Viridian; This page was last edited on 30 December 2018, at 17:36 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...

  5. Shades of red - Wikipedia

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    Vermilion (sometimes spelled vermillion) is both a brilliant red or scarlet pigment, originally made from the powdered mineral cinnabar (see § Cinnabar). It was widely used in the art and decoration of Ancient Rome, in the illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages, in the paintings of the Renaissance , as sindoor , an Indian cosmetic powder ...

  6. Red pigments - Wikipedia

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    Vermilion is a very ancient red-orange pigment, made by pulverizing the mineral cinnabar.Its defect is that it is liable to darken with age, and sometimes develops a purple-red surface sheen, as seen in some paintings by Paolo Uccello, including the bridles of the horses depicts in "The Battle of San Romano" .

  7. Secondary color - Wikipedia

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    A color model is a conceptual model and does not have specifically defined primary colors. A color space based on the RGB color model, most commonly sRGB, has defined primaries and can be used to visualize the color mixing and yield approximate tertiary colors. Also note that the color terms applied to tertiary and quaternary colors are not ...

  8. Lists of colors - Wikipedia

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  9. Category:Shades of red - Wikipedia

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