What color is Cinnabar?
Cinnabar is a vivid, warm red with a slight orange pull, hex #E84B3D, close to the color of a ripe chili pepper. The tone is bold and saturated, with enough warmth to keep it from reading as a cool or blue-based red.
What is the meaning of the color Cinnabar?
The name comes from the mineral cinnabar, a mercury sulfide ore mined extensively in ancient China and Spain, where it was ground into pigment as early as the 7th century BCE. Artists and scribes across Asia and Europe used it to produce vermilion, the bright red paint seen in Chinese lacquerware and medieval illuminated manuscripts. It entered the English color vocabulary through trade routes that brought both the mineral and the pigment westward. The Old Masters’ pigment supplier Kremer Pigmente still lists natural cinnabar as a documented historical material, anchoring the name to a specific and traceable craft tradition.
What colors go with Cinnabar?
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Conversions & Codes
| Format | Value | CSS |
|---|---|---|
| HEX | #E84B3D |
color: #E84B3D;
|
| RGB | 232, 75, 61 |
color: rgb(232, 75, 61);
|
| RGB Percentage | 91%, 29%, 24% |
color: rgb(91%, 29%, 24%);
|
| CMYK | 0%, 68%, 74%, 9% | Not supported in CSS |
| HSL | 5°, 79%, 57% |
color: hsl(5, 79%, 57%);
|
| HSV | 5°, 74%, 91% | Not supported in CSS |
| CIE-LAB | 46, 31, 5 |
color: lab(46% 31 5);
|
| Decimal | 15223613 | Not supported in CSS |
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CSS & Dev Snippets
.cinnabar {
color: #E84B3D;
}
$cinnabar: #E84B3D;
rgb(232, 75, 61)