Colours of buildings and cities
Walls, roofs, tiles, doors and whole painted towns.
#FF0000
Red
A primary colour seen in light, pigment, and tradition worldwideBasic colour · 🇺🇸 United States +5
Red
Cinnabar
A scarlet to brick-red mineral and the main source of mercury and vermilion pigmentColour named from nature · 🇪🇸 Spain +5
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Vermilion
A brilliant orange-red pigment, once made from toxic mercury orePigment · 🇹🇷 Turkey +5
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Falu redfalu rödfärg
A deep red paint pigment from the Falun copper mine, used on wooden houses in SwedenPigment · 🇸🇪 Sweden +2
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Rust
A deep reddish-orange named after the colour of oxidised ironNamed shade
Red
Sang de boeuf glaze郎窑红
A deep red porcelain glaze first made in early 18th-century ChinaNamed shade · 🇨🇳 China +1
Red
Iron(III) oxide
A deep red iron compound found in hematite and used as pigment and polishPigment
Red
Lead(II,IV) oxide
A strong red-orange pigment once widely used to protect iron and in illuminated manuscriptsPigment · 🇦🇺 Australia
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Sinopia
A reddish-brown earth pigment once prized for fresco underdrawingsPigment · 🇮🇹 Italy
Red
Cinquasia red
A deep red pigment from the quinacridone family, valued for its durabilityPigment
Red
BISU Maroon
A deep maroon chosen as a school colour by Beijing International Studies UniversityNamed shade · 🇨🇳 China
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Persian red
A deep reddish orange pigment once made from earths near the Persian GulfNamed shade
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Pompeian red
A deep red seen on ancient Roman walls and ceramics, named for the ruins of PompeiiNamed shade
Red
Naphthol Red
A synthetic red pigment widely used in car paints and art materialsPigment
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Candy apple red
A glossy, intense red inspired by the coating on candied applesNamed shade
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Carnelian
A deep reddish-brown named after the semi-precious carnelian stoneNamed shade
Red
Red红 / 紅 (hóng), Красный (Krasny)
A colour linked with luck, love, courage and ceremony in cultures worldwideBasic colour · 🇨🇳 China +5
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Barn red
A deep red shade linked to traditional American barn paintNamed shade
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Tea rose
A soft pink tint named after the tea rose flowerNamed shade
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Carnelian: Hyperdeath, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Sinopia: Joanbanjo, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Pompeian red: Wknight94, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Lead(II,IV) oxide: BXXXD at German Wikipedia ( Original text: BXXXD ), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Iron(III) oxide: BXXXD, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- BISU Maroon: Beijing International Studies University, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Sang de boeuf glaze: WAN233, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Naphthol Red: Edgar181 ( talk ), Public domain, source
- Cinnabar: H. Zell, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Candy apple red: Danemroberts, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Vermilion: عُثمان, CC0, source
- Red: Sander van der Wel, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Falu red: Moralist, Public domain, source
- Rust: AndrewHenkelman, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Red: Politikaner, CC BY-SA 3.0, source