188 Color names for "Red"

Venetian red is a light and warm (somewhat unsaturated) pigment that is a darker shade of red, derived from nearly pure ferric oxide (Fe2O3) of the hematite type. Modern versions are frequently made with synthetic red iron oxide. Historically, Venetian red was a red earth color often used in Italian Renaissance paintings. It was also called sinopia because the best-quality pigment came from the port of Sinop in northern Turkey. It was the major ingredient in the pigment called cinabrese, described by the 15th-century Italian painter and writer Cennino Cennini in his handbook on painting, Il libro dell'arte. The first recorded use of Venetian red as a color name in English was in 1753.

Indian red is a pigment, a variety of ocher, which gets its colour from ferric oxide, produced in India. Other shades of iron oxides include Venetian Red, English Red, and Kobe. Chestnut is a colour similar to but separate and distinct from Indian red.

Rusty red is a color formulated by Crayola in 1990 as one of the colors in its Silver Swirls specialty crayon box of metallic colors.

This red is a tone of Indian red, made like Indian red with pigment made from iron oxide. The first recorded use of English red as a colour name in English was in the 1700s (exact year uncertain). In the Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot in 1765, alternate names for Indian red included "what one also calls, however improperly, English Red."

"Popstar" is one of the colors on the Resene Color List. It was formulated in 2006.

Tuscan red is a shade of red that was used on some railroad cars, particularly passenger cars. The color is most closely associated with the Pennsylvania Railroad, which used it on passenger cars and on its TrucTrain flatcars. It also was used extensively by the New South Wales Government Railways in Australia, in a similar fashion to the PRR. The Norfolk and Western Railway used it as an accent color on its J class steam locomotives. The Canadian Pacific Railway used it historically and painted its luxury revival cars in this color. It is also a Prismacolor colored pencil.

The source of rose red is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #18-1852 TPX—Rose red.

The first recorded use of "flirt" as a color name in English was in 1928. In 2001, "flirt" was included as one of the colors on the Xona Color List.

Red (RGB), RGB red, or electric red is the brightest possible red that can be reproduced on a computer monitor. This color is an approximation of an orangish red spectral color. It is one of the three primary colors of light in the RGB color model, along with green and blue. This color is also the color called red in the X11 web colors, which were originally formulated in 1987. It is also called color wheel red. It is at precisely zero (360) degrees on the HSV color wheel, also known as the RGB color wheel

The colour blood red is a dark shade of the colour red meant to resemble the colour of human blood. It is the iron in hemoglobin specifically that gives blood its red colour. The actual colour ranges from crimson to a dark brown-blood depending on how oxygenated the blood is, and may have a slightly orange hue. Different sources have proposed different color schemes for the color blood red. This is one of these.

The colour blood red is a dark shade of the colour red meant to resemble the colour of human blood. It is the iron in hemoglobin specifically that gives blood its red colour. The actual colour ranges from crimson to a dark brown-blood depending on how oxygenated the blood is, and may have a slightly orange hue. Different sources have proposed different color schemes for the color blood red. This is one of these.

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.

Medium red-violet is the medium tone of the color red-violet that is called "red-violet" in Crayola crayons. It has been a Crayola color since 1930.

Apple red is the color of the peel of an apple.

Red-purple is the color that is called Rojo-Purpura (the Spanish word for "red-purple") 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. Although "red-purple" is a seldom-used color name in English, in Spanish it is regarded as one of the major tones of purple.

Cardinal red, also called cardinal, is a vivid red, which gets its name from the cassocks worn by cardinals. The family of birds takes its name from the color.

The color is defined as red in Crayola crayons. Red was one of the original colors formulated by Crayola in 1903.

University of Pennsylvania Red is one of the official colors of the Penn Quakers, the athletic teams of the University of Pennsylvania.

The first recorded use of "blush" as a color name in English was in 1590. "Blush" has been a Crayola color since 1998. It was originally called "cranberry", until 2005.

"Smitten" is one of the colors on the Resene Color List, a color list widely popular in Australia and New Zealand. The color was formulated in 2011.

Oxblood or ox-blood is a dark shade of red. It resembles burgundy, but has less purple and more dark brown hues. The French term sang-de-bœuf, or sang de bœuf, with the same meaning (but also "ox blood") is used in various contexts in English, but especially in pottery, where sang de boeuf glaze in the color is a classic ceramic glaze in Chinese ceramics. The name is often used in fashion, especially for shoes. The term oxblood can be used to describe a range of colors from red to reddish-purple to nearly black with red, brown and blue undertones.

Turkey red is a color that was widely used to dye cotton in the 18th and 19th century. It was made using the root of the rubia plant, through a long and laborious process. It originated in India or Turkey, and was brought to Europe in the 1740s. In France it was known as rouge d'Andrinople.

Bittersweet shimmer is one of the colors in the special set of metallic Crayola crayons called Metallic FX, the colors of which were formulated by Crayola in 2001. Although this is supposed to be a metallic color, there is no mechanism for displaying metallic colors on a computer.

Rosso corsa is the red international motor racing colour of cars entered by teams from Italy. Since the 1920s Italian race cars of Alfa Romeo, Maserati, Lancia, and later Ferrari and Abarth have been painted in rosso corsa ("racing red"). This was the customary national racing colour of Italy as recommended between the world wars by the organisations that later became the FIA. In that scheme of international auto racing colours French cars were blue (Bleu de France), British cars were green (British racing green), etc.

Imperial red is a representation of the red color of the Imperial Standard of Napoleon I. The first recorded use of imperial red as a color name in English was in 1914. Note: the RGB values for Pantone red and imperial red are identical.

Fluorescent red is a light brilliant red color.

Jazzberry color, a deep shade of red-violet, was formulated by Crayola in 2003.

The colour blood red is a dark shade of the colour red meant to resemble the colour of human blood. It is the iron in hemoglobin specifically that gives blood its red colour. The actual colour ranges from crimson to a dark brown-blood depending on how oxygenated the blood is, and may have a slightly orange hue. Different sources have proposed different color schemes for the color blood red. This is one of these.

The color Razzmatazz is a rich shade of crimson-rose. Razzmatazz was a new Crayola crayon color chosen in 1993 as a part of the Name The New Colors Contest. It was named by then 5-year-old Laura Bartolomei-Hill. She was the youngest winner of Crayola's "Name the New Colors Contest."

The color poppy red is named after the poppy flower. Poppy red is a shade of pink-red. Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae, a Canadian officer and surgeon in World War I, wrote possibly history's most famous wartime poems, called "In Flanders Fields", written in 1915. It helped the poppy (Papaver rhoeas) become a symbol of remembrance for soldiers who have died during the conflict and later conflicts.

Deep Indian red is the colour originally called Indian red from its formulation in 1903 until 1999, but now called chestnut, in Crayola crayons.This colour was also produced in a special limited edition in which it was called Vermont maple syrup. At the request of educators worried that children mistakenly believed the name represented the skin color of Native Americans, Crayola changed the name of their crayon color Indian Red to Chestnut in 1999.

Violet-red (PerBang) is the bright color of red-violet.

The web color "brown" is a medium dark red traditionally known as red-brown. Its hue code is 0, indicating it's a shade of red, not orange. The first recorded use of "red-brown" as a color name in English was in 1682.

Violet red is a bright tone of red-violet and has been part of the Crayola color collection since 1958.

The colour blood red is a dark shade of the colour red meant to resemble the colour of human blood. It is the iron in hemoglobin specifically that gives blood its red colour. The actual colour ranges from crimson to a dark brown-blood depending on how oxygenated the blood is, and may have a slightly orange hue. Different sources have proposed different color schemes for the color blood red. This is one of these.

Medium Tuscan red is that tone of Tuscan red that is called Tuscan red in the ISCC-NBS color list.

The color brilliant rose is a Crayola color formulated in 1949, but the name was changed in 1958 to magenta. The original name is more accurate since this color, having a hue code of 329, is much closer to rose than (web color) magenta.

This is a Crayola color that was formulated in 1949; it was originally called brilliant rose but the name was changed in 1958 to magenta. This color has a hue angle of 329, which is close to the hue angle of the color rose, which is 330.

This is the color now called scarlet in Crayola crayons. It was originally formulated as torch red in 1998 and then renamed scarlet by Crayola in 2000.

The color known as pink in Pantone is designated as Pink U. It is sourced from the Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX) color list as color #U—Pink.

Falu red or falun red (Swedish: falu rödfärg ) is a permeable red paint commonly used on wooden cottages and barns in Sweden, Finland, and Norway.

Red-violet or pigment purple (pigment red-violet) represents the way the color purple (red-violet) was normally reproduced in pigments, paints, or colored pencils in the 1950s on an old-fashioned RYB color wheel. The normalized color coordinates for red-violet are identical to medium violet red, which was first recorded as a color name in English with the formalization of the X11 color names over 1985–1989.

The color is defined as red in Pantone. The source of this color is the Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX) color list, color No. 032M—Red.

The color is defined as red in the Munsell color system (Munsell 5R). The Munsell color system is a color space that specifies colors based on three color dimensions:hue, value (lightness), and chroma (color purity), spaced uniformly in three dimensions in the elongated oval at an angle shaped Munsell color solid according to the logarithmic scale which governs human perception. In order for all the colors to be spaced uniformly, it was found necessary to use a color wheel with five primary colors—red, yellow, green, blue, and purple. The Munsell colors displayed are only approximate as they have been adjusted to fit into the sRGB gamut.

This is the Red color in the NCS or Natural Color System (NCS 1080-R). The Natural Color System (NCS) is a color system based on the four unique hues or psychological primary colors red, yellow, green, and blue. The NCS is based on the opponent process theory of vision. The Natural Color System is widely used in Scandinavia.

Quinacridone magenta is a color made from quinacridone pigment. It is sold in tubes at art supply stores. By mixing various amounts of white with it, artists may create a wide range of light, bright, brilliant, vivid, rich, or deep tints of magenta.

The color shown is called Puce in the ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955). With a hue code of 353, it is a slightly purplish red.

The first recorded use of rose taupe as a color name in English was in 1924.

Persian red is a deep reddish orange earth or pigment from the Persian Gulf composed of a silicate of iron and alumina, with magnesia.It is also called artificial vermillion. The first recorded use of Persian red as a color name in English was in 1895. Other colors associated with Persia include Persian pink, Persian rose, Persian orange, Persian blue and Persian green.

Ruby red is one of the colors in the RAL color matching system, which is widely used in Europe. The RAL color list originated in 1927 and reached its current form in 1961.