Rookwood Dark Red

Maroon

Maroon is a brownish red color that takes its name from the French word marron, meaning chestnut. Marron is also one of the French translations for "brown".

Darkness

Darkness is the condition resulting from a lack of illumination, or an absence of visible light.

Red

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 625–750 nanometers. It is a primary color in the RGB color model and a secondary color in the CMYK color model, and is the complementary color of cyan. Reds range from the brilliant yellow-tinged scarlet and vermillion to bluish-red crimson, and vary in shade from the pale red pink to the dark red burgundy.

dark

Adjective

1. Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
2. Extinguished.

Noun

1. A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
2. Ignorance.

red

Noun

1. The color of the setting sun, blood, and strawberries; the color which is evoked by the longest visible wavelengths (between about 625–740 nm), and a primary additive color.
2. A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War.

Adjective

1. Of a red hue.
2. Having an orange-brown or orange-blond colour; ginger.