Color Names

Spinel Red

Dark, rich spinel, its deep red nearly obscured by brown, like an uncut gem.

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Spinel Red is a deep brown, close to maroon.

It can be described as deep, rich, dark and dim.

Set in white, because white reads best on it.

Spinel Red

Spinel

Spinel is the magnesium/aluminium member of the larger spinel group of minerals. It has the formula MgAl2O4 in the cubic crystal system. The name comes from the Latin word spinella, a diminutive form of spine, in reference to its pointed crystals.

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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.

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spinel

Noun

  1. Any of several hard minerals of cubic symmetry that are mixed oxides of magnesium and aluminium and are used as gemstones of various colours.
  2. Any crystalline material, not necessarily an oxide, that possesses the same crystal structure as this mineral.

Noun

  1. Spindle; the amount of yarn that fits on a spindle.
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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.
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