Carmine color is the general term for some deep red colors that are very slightly purplish but are generally slightly closer to red than the color crimson is. Some rubies are colored the color shown below as rich carmine. The deep dark red color shown at right as carmine is the color of the raw unprocessed pigment, but lighter, richer, or brighter colors are produced when the raw pigment is processed, some of which are shown below.
| Carmine | |
|---|---|
Powdered carmine pigment
| |
 Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #960018 |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (150, 0, 24) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (350°, 100%, 59%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (31, 99, 10°) |
| Source | Pourpre.com |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Vivid red |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
The first recorded use of carmine as a color name in English was in 1523.[1]
| Wild Watermelon | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #FC6C85 |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (252, 108, 133) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (350°, 57%, 99%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (64, 101, 4°) |
| Source | Crayola |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Deep pink |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
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.
| Radical Red | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #FF355E |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (255, 53, 94) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (348°, 79%, 100%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (57, 145, 6°) |
| Source | Crayola |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Vivid red |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
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.
| Paradise Pink | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #E63E62 |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (230, 62, 98) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (347°, 73%, 90%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (53, 119, 5°) |
| Source | Pantone TPX[2] |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Vivid red |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
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.[3]
Since it has a hue code of 347, the color paradise pink is within the range of carmine colors.
| Rich Carmine | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #D70040 |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (215, 0, 64) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (342°, 100%, 84%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (45, 137, 6°) |
| Source | Maerz and Paul[4] |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Vivid red |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
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 carmineinfashion and interior design.
| Spanish Carmine | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #D10047 |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (209, 0, 71) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (340°, 100%, 82%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (44, 130, 5°) |
| Source | Gallego and Sanz[5] |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Vivid red |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
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.
| Pictorial Carmine | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #C30B4E |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (195, 11, 78) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (338°, 94%, 76%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (42, 115, 2°) |
| Source | Gallego and Sanz[6] |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Vivid red |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
Pictorial carmine is the color that is called Carmín pictórico (Spanish for "pictorial 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.
This is a typical tone of carmine pigment used in painting.
| Japanese Carmine | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #9D2933 |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (157, 41, 51) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (355°, 74%, 62%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (36, 85, 10°) |
| Source | JTC |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Deep red |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
The color Japanese carmine is shown at right.
The name of this shade of carmine in Japaneseisenji-iro (臙脂色), literally "rouge color", as enji (臙脂) means rouge, the cosmetics. This term was later used to form the name of the New World insect, cochineal, used to make red dyes: enji-mushi (臙脂虫).