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  2. Red - Wikipedia

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    Red is the color at the long wavelength end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet. It has a dominant wavelength of approximately 625–740 nanometres. [1] It is a primary color in the RGB color model and a secondary color (made from magenta and yellow) in the CMYK color model, and is the complementary color of cyan.

  3. Color symbolism - Wikipedia

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    Color symbolism. Color symbolism in art, literature, and anthropology refers to the use of color as a symbol in various cultures and in storytelling. There is great diversity in the use of colors and their associations between cultures [1] and even within the same culture in different time periods. [2] The same color may have very different ...

  4. Shades of red - Wikipedia

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    Red (RGB), RGB red, or electric red[citation needed] (as opposed to pigment red, shown below) is the brightest possible red that can be reproduced on a computer monitor. This color is an approximation of an orangish red spectral color. It is one of the three primary colors of light in the RGB color model, along with green and blue.

  5. Red in culture - Wikipedia

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    Wedding dresses. In many Asian countries, red is the traditional color for a wedding dress today, symbolizing joy and good fortune.. In India, brides traditionally wear a red sari, called the sari of blood, offered by their father, signifying that his duties as a father are transferred to the new husband, and as a symbol of his wish for her to have children.

  6. What Does the Rainbow Pride Flag Mean? - AOL

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    Pride Flag Meaning. Each color on the Pride flag has a specific meaning. ... Today’s flag has six colors: red, orange, yellow, green, royal blue and violet. The modern Pride flag has six stripes.

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  7. Scarlet (color) - Wikipedia

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    A native of Central America collecting cochineal insects from a cactus to make red dye (1777). Rembrandt used carmine lake, made of cochineal, to paint the skirt of the bride in the painting known as "The Jewish bride" (1665–1669). Scarlet was the traditional color of the British nobility in the 17th and 18th century.

  8. History of red - Wikipedia

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    Red was the color of the banner of the Byzantine emperors. In Western Europe, Emperor Charlemagne painted his palace red as a very visible symbol of his authority, and wore red shoes at his coronation. [5] : 36–37 Kings, princes and, beginning in 1295, Roman Catholic cardinals began to wear red colored habitus.

  9. Color - Wikipedia

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    Color. Colored pencils. Color ( American English) or Colour ( British and Commonwealth English) is the visual perception based on the electromagnetic spectrum. Though color is not an inherent property of matter, color perception is related to an object's light absorption, reflection, emission spectra and interference.

  10. Political colour - Wikipedia

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    In Canada, red is the colour of the Liberal Party of Canada. In China, red is the colour used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In Hong Kong and Macau, red is used by the pro-Beijing camp. In Malaysia, red was currently used to represent Pakatan Harapan and also the Socialist Party of Malaysia.

  11. Color theory - Wikipedia

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    Color theory, or more specifically traditional color theory, is the historical body of knowledge describing the behavior of colors, namely in color mixing, color contrast effects, color harmony, color schemes and color symbolism. [1] Modern color theory is generally referred to as Color science. While there is no clear distinction in scope ...