Vermilion Scarlet

Scarlet (color)

Scarlet is a bright red color, sometimes with a slightly orange tinge. In the spectrum of visible light, and on the traditional color wheel, it is one-quarter of the way between red and orange, slightly less orange than vermilion.

Vermilion

Vermilion is a color family and toxic pigment most often used between antiquity and the 19th century and made from the powdered mineral cinnabar. It is synonymous with red orange.

vermilion

Noun

1. A vivid red synthetic pigment made of mercury sulfide, cinnabar.
2. A bright orange-red colour.

Adjective

1. Having a brilliant red colour.
2. Having the color of the vermilion dye.

scarlet

Noun

1. A brilliant red colour sometimes tinged with orange.
2. Cloth of a scarlet color.

Adjective

1. Of a bright red colour.
2. Sinful or whorish.