Red is a primary color in all color models. It, like many of the colors of the rainbow, can tie into multiple aesthetics.
Contents
Meanings
Red holds a wide range of different meanings, which include:
- Attracts attention
- Blood
- Courage and sacrifice
- Fire, warmth, summer, and the south
- Guilt, regret
- Hatred, anger, and aggression
- Health
- Heroic figure
- Loyalty, honor, success, fortune and happiness
- Mourning
- Prostitution
- Punishment
- Satan (The Devil)
- Seduction, lust, and sin
- Warning, danger, and fear
Variations
- Madder
- Carmine
- Spanish red
- Cordovan
- Fire engine red
- Light coral
- Garnet
- Chili red
- Turkey red
- Barn red
- Indian red
- Scarlet
Vexillological
- Imperial red
Maerz and Paul
- Vermillion
- Cardinal
X11
- Crimson
- Indian red
Universities
- Cornell red
- OU crimson
- Penn red
- Syracuse Orange
HTML/CSS
- Maroon
- Light red
Color systems
- Red (RGB/HSL)
- Red (RGB)
- Red (Munsell)
- Red (NCS)
- Red (CMYK)
Crayola
- Red
- Bright pink
- Salmon pink
- Rusty red
- Bittersweet shimmer
- Cantaloupe Melon
- Bittersweet
- Jasper
Pantone
- Red
- Coral Red
- Redwood
Web colors
- Pink
- Misty rose
- Salmon
- Dark red
- Fire brick
- Syracuse Orange
- Tomato
- Rosy brown
- Redwood
ISCC-NBS
- Rose vale
- Old rose
- Rose ebony
- Coral pink
- Tea rose
- Lust
- Rose taupe
Life of Colour by Thom Poole
- Blood red
- Cinnabar
Related aesthetics
Red is mostly tied to:
- Angura Kei
- Autumn
- Cherry Emoji Twitter
- De Stijl
- Devilcore
- Femme Fatale
- Heatwave
- Jamcore
- Kidcore
- Laborwave
- Lovecore
- Lostcore
- Nymphet
- Retro
- Slimepunk
- Tropical
- Vampire
Resources
Pinterest boards
Gallery
Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted.
