10 Shades of Vermilion Color

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1. #f4320c

   

   Vermilion Color

   Vermilion came from ground cinnabar, a toxic mercury sulfide mined at Almadén, Spain, for two millennia; painters used it despite the danger because nothing else glowed as red. Chinese lacquerware, Renaissance frescoes, and Rothko’s late reds all owe it. Vermilion color (#f4320c) still delivers that same fiery orange-red charge on screen.

2. #474230

   

   Vermilion Green Color

   Vermilion is a red pigment made from mercury sulfide, so this name contradicts itself from the start. Vermilion Green color hex code #474230 settles it as a dark, murky olive-brown, like wet peat or pipe tobacco. There’s no red in its look at all, so treat the name as fiction.

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