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Crimson is a strong, bright, deep red color combined with some blue or violet, resulting in a small degree of purple. It is also the color between rose and red on the RGB color wheel and magenta and red on the RYB color wheel. Crimson as a quaternary color on the RGB color wheel. cerise. rose.
Lava (color) Lava. #CF1020. 33 ft (10 m) high fountain of lava, Hawaii, United States. Lava is a color that is a shade of red. It is named after the color of volcanic lava . This is the color (color #CF1020, shown at right) of fresh lava pouring out of a volcano . The first recorded use of lava as a color name in English was in 1891.
In some uses, hexadecimal color codes are specified with notation using a leading number sign (#). [1] [2] A color is specified according to the intensity of its red, green and blue components, each represented by eight bits. Thus, there are 24 bits used to specify a web color within the sRGB gamut, and 16,777,216 colors that may be so specified.
In computing, on the X Window System, X11 color names are represented in a simple text file, which maps certain strings to RGB color values. It was traditionally shipped with every X11 installation, hence the name, and is usually located in <X11root> /lib/X11/rgb.txt. The web colors list is descended from it but differs for certain color names.
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 .
The colour blood red is a dark shade of the colour red meant to resemble the colour of human blood (which is composed of oxygenated red erythrocytes, white leukocytes, and yellow blood plasma ). [2] 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 ...
Red, green and blue lights, representing the three basic additive primary colors of the RGB color system, red, green, and blue. Magenta light is composed of equal amounts of red and blue light. Magenta, shown at the right, is one of the three secondary colors in the RGB color model, used to make all the colors on computer and television displays.
The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary describes maroon as "a brownish-crimson or claret colour," [8] while the Merriam-Webster online dictionary simply defines it as a dark red. [ 9 ] In the sRGB color model for additive color representation, the web color called maroon is created by turning down the brightness of pure red to about one half.