Colours made from sulfur
14 colours that our sources say are made from sulfur.
Red
Realgar
An orange-red arsenic sulfide mineral once used as a pigment and poisonPigment · 🇨🇳 China +5
White
Barium sulfate
A dense, white mineral used in pigments, X-rays, and industryPigment
Blue
Lazurite
A deep blue mineral that gives lapis lazuli its colourColour named from nature · 🇦🇫 Afghanistan +2
Green
Chromium(III) oxide
A strong green pigment and polishing compound made from chromium orePigment
Yellow
Cadmium sulfide
A bright yellow pigment and semiconductor compound made from cadmium and sulfurPigment
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Lazurite: Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Barium sulfate: de:Benutzer:the-viewer, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Cadmium sulfide: Marco Almbauer, Public domain, source
- Realgar: Géry PARENT, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Chromium(III) oxide: Solid State, Public domain, source