Persian red

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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.

[edit] Persian red

Persian Red
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#CC3333
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(204, 51, 51)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(5°, 50%, 50%)
Source		[Unsourced]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the color Persian red.

The first recorded use of Persian red as a color name in English was in 1897. ^[1]

The source of this color is a picture of the flag of the Red Lion and Sun: [1].

[edit] Persian red in human culture

Charities

• Before the fall of the Iranian monarchy in 1979, in Iran there was an organization called the Red Lion and Sun (see the Red Lion with Sun subsection within the Wikipedia Red Cross article) which was the Iranian equivalent of the Red Cross. In Iran, the lion and sun image was rendered in Persian red on a white background.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] References

1. ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 201

v • d • e Shades of red
Alizarin	Amaranth	Burgundy	Cardinal	Carmine	Carnelian	Cerise	Chestnut	Coral red	Crimson
Dark pink	Falu red	Fire engine red	Fuchsia	Magenta	Maroon	Mauve taupe	Orange-red	Persian red	Pink
Persimmon	Red	Red-violet	Rose	Rose madder	Ruby	Rust	Puce	Sangria	Scarlet
Terra cotta	Upsdell red	Venetian red	Vermilion
The samples shown above are representative only.