Colours made from cinnabar
5 colours that our sources say are made from cinnabar.
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Scarlet
A bright red with a touch of orange, long tied to power, sacrifice and sinNamed shade · 🇹🇷 Turkey +4
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Vermilion
A brilliant orange-red pigment, once made from toxic mercury orePigment · 🇹🇷 Turkey +5
Red
Sindoorसिन्दूर
A red or orange-red powder marking marriage for Hindu women in South AsiaTraditional colour · 🇮🇳 India +4
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Pompeian red
A deep red seen on ancient Roman walls and ceramics, named for the ruins of PompeiiNamed shade
Red
Red pigment
Pigments made from minerals, plants, and insects to create red colours in artPigment · 🇫🇷 France +4
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Pompeian red: Wknight94, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Sindoor: Masum-al-hasan, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Scarlet: Daderot, Public domain, source
- Vermilion: عُثمان, CC0, source
- Red pigment: Marco Almbauer, Public domain, source