Shades of red

Sinopia (also known as sinoper, named after the Turkish city Sinop) is a dark reddish-brown natural earth pigment, whose reddish color comes from hematite, a dehydrated form of iron oxide.

Chestnut is a color, a medium reddish shade of brown (displayed right), and is named after the nut of the chestnut tree.

Cardinal is a vivid red, which may get its name from the cassocks worn by Catholic cardinals (although the color worn by cardinals is actually scarlet), or from the bird of the same name.

Carmine is the general term for some deep red colours that are very slightly purplish but are generally slightly closer to red than the colour crimson is.

Crimson is a strong, red color, inclining to purple.

Magenta (/məˈdʒɛntə/) is variously defined as a purplish-red, reddish-purple, or a mauvish–crimson color.

Red is the color at the longer-wavelengths end of the spectrum of visible light next to orange, at the opposite end from violet.

Scarlet is a brilliant red color with a tinge of orange.

Rose madder is the commercial name sometimes used to designate a paint made from the pigment madder lake, a traditional lake pigment extracted from the common madder plant Rubia tinctorum.

Maroon (US & UK /məˈruːn/ mə-ROON, Australia /məˈroʊn/ mə-RONE) is a dark brownish red color which takes its name from the French word marron, or chestnut.

Rust is a red-orange-brown color resembling iron oxide.

Terra cotta is a color that resembles Terra cotta.

Red wine is a type of wine made from dark-colored (black) grape varieties.

Puce is a dark red or purple brown color, a brownish purple or a "dark reddish brown.

Fuchsia (/ˈfjuːʃə/, FEW-shə) is a vivid purplish red color, named after the color of the flower of the fuchsia plant, which took its name from the 16th century German botanist Leonhart Fuchs.

The various tones of the color coral are representations of the colors of those cnidarians known as precious corals.

Amaranth is a reddish-rose color that is a representation of the color of the flower of the amaranth plant.

Cadmium pigments are a class of pigments that have cadmium as one of the chemical components.

Perinone is a class of organic compounds.

Rose is the color halfway between red and magenta on the HSV color wheel, also known as the RGB color wheel, on which it is at hue angle of 330 degrees.

Rosso corsa is the red international motor racing colour of cars entered by teams from Italy.

Alizarin crimson is a red color that is biased slightly more towards purple than towards orange on the color wheel.

Lava is a color that is a shade of red.

Tuscan red is a shade of red that was used on the passenger cars of the Pennsylvania Railroad, as well as on the PRR TrucTrailers.

Carnelian is a color named after the carnelian variety of the mineral chalcedony.

Burgundy is a shade of pinkish brown associated with the Burgundy wine of the same name, which in turn is named after the Burgundy region of France which in turn is named after the ancient Burgundians, a Germanic tribe.

Mordant red 19 is a mordant used in textile dyeing with the chemical formula C16H13ClN4O5S.

The color wine is a dark shade of red.

Candy apple red (occasionally known as apple-candy red) is the name code used by manufacturing companies to define a shade of red similar to the red sugar coating on candied apples.

Fulvous /ˈfʊlvəs/ is a colour, sometimes described as dull reddish-yellow, brownish-yellow or tawny, it can also be likened to a variation of buff, beige or butterscotch.

(For a broader coverage related to this topic, see Red.) Varieties of the color red may differ in hue, chroma (also called saturation, intensity, or colorfulness) or lightness (or value, tone, or brightness), or in two or three of these qualities.

This article is about notable tints and shades of the color magenta.

Venetian red is a light and warm (somewhat unsaturated) pigment that is a darker shade of scarlet, derived from nearly pure ferric oxide (Fe2O3) of the hematite type.

Persian red is a deep reddish orange earth or pigment from the Persian Gulf composed of a silicate of iron and alumina, with magnesia.

Red-violet is a rich color of high medium saturation about 3/4 of the way between red and magenta, closer to magenta than to red.

Fire engine red is an informal name, without particular chromatic specification, for an intense, bright red commonly used on emergency vehicles in the United States and Canada, mostly on, as the name implies, fire engines.

The first use of the term oxblood as a color name in the English language dates back to 1695–1705.

Raspberry is a color that resembles the color of raspberries.

Indian red is a pigment composed of naturally occurring iron oxides that is widely used in India.

Coquelicot ( /ˈkoʊklᵻkoʊ/ KOHK-li-koh) is a shade of red.

Turkey red is a color that was widely used to dye cotton in the 18th and 19th century.