What Is Crimson?
Crimson refers to a bright red with a tinge of blue.
It’s often considered the color of fresh blood (blood red).
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The bright red color of love known as crimson was originally a dye produced from an insect.
Using Crimson Color in Design Files
Crimson is a bright color that stands out prominently.
Avoid using it in conjunction with black, as the two colors provide low color contrast.
White provides a much better contrast with crimson.
Crimson often appears in designs for Valentine’s Day and at Christmas.
When planning a design project destined for commercial printing, useCMYKformulations for crimson in your page layout software.
For display on a computer monitor, useRGBvalues.
Usehexadecimal designationswhen working with HTML, CSS, and SVG.
The Pantone Matching System is the most widely recognized spot color system in the world.
Use it to specify a spot color in your page layout software.
Here are the Pantone colors suggested as best matches to the crimson shades listed above.
It’s also associated with the Christian church and its Bible.
People living in the Elizabethan era associated crimson with royalty, nobility, and others of high social standing.
Only individuals designated by English law could wear the color.
