Is Cinnabar Red and Vermilion a red color?

Cinnabar Red and Vermilion Red are one red color.

Vermilion is the traditional Chinese name for the color, between orange and red. It is made from an opaque form of vermilion. It has been used since ancient times as a rouge for applying powder. It is also known as Chinese red.

Expanded Information:

1. The History of Cinnabar:

(1) Cinnabar Red is one of the ancient colors used by mankind, evidence of which appears in Chinese prehistory. The color vermilion subsequently spread to the Roman Empire, and Pliny the Elder records that it became so valuable that the price had to be set by the Roman government.

(2) Until the 12th century, vermilion was used throughout Europe, mostly in clay and gold to decorate manuscripts, and although its use did not become commonplace, by the 15th century people began to utilize it more.

2, Chinese red source:

Chinese red name comes from the color of the material cinnabar, a red pigment in traditional Chinese art. Chinese seals used to print the substance is vermilion red cinnabar paste, cinnabar pigment is also used in Chinese red bright lacquer. In Taoist culture, vermilion is regarded as the color of life and eternity.

3, vermilion color system

(1) vermilion in the red system tends to the yellow direction, is a big red to add yellow and get. In the color ring table, pure red in the HSB for 0 degrees, to 360 degrees in the direction of the presentation of the cold red, 0 degrees in the direction of the yellow system.

(2) the whole page, the main color Zhu red area is very large, determine the obvious, auxiliary colors are mainly composed of black, crimson, (numerical value is selected to mark crimson). The main color of R presents the highest value of 255 and 100% in S, which fully indicates the highest characteristics of red. The secondary color of crimson R is 222, B87%, showing that it acts as a secondary role of this characteristic.

(3) the background color vermilion due to the obvious characteristics of the red, saturation, brightness are very high, here the use of auxiliary colors crimson, black suppress and hold vermilion eye-catching personality, but also to achieve the same foreground to highlight the main picture of the content of the purpose.

(4) eye-catching color is mainly used to highlight the logo, other navigation text, pictures of the part of the application, and so on, to reconcile and achieve not to make the whole page stimulation and through the sense of shallow.

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