Persian red

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.

Persian red
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet#C81D11
HSV       (h, s, v)(4°, 92%, 78%)
sRGBB  (r, g, b)(200, 29, 17)
Source[Unsourced]
ISCC–NBS descriptorVivid red
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

The first recorded use of Persian red as a color name in English was in 1895.[1]

Other colors associated with Persia include Persian pink, Persian rose, Persian blue and Persian green.

In human culture

Architecture

See also

References

  1. Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 201
  2. Raguin, Virginia C. Decorator: John LaFarge in The makers of Trinity Church in the city of Boston, ed. James F. O'Gorman, D. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2004. p 120
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