What color do you think Vermillion is? no google, from the heart

[moonfly7]

So, I've asked everybody I know, and only 1 guy said the right answer. Most people either have spent their whole lives thinking it's green, or thought it was yellow(Some just didn't know it was a color). Is this just me and my admittedly weird friend group? Half of these guys were artists. one dude described a green painting as "vermillion". post what you thought the color was.

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It's red. I never knew that till 2 days ago.

Is this the Mandella effect?
or is it just that I play pokemon, all my friends are nerds, and we thought Veridian first, and confuse Veridian with Vermillion all the time(both the cities and the color)?

Legit curious. Let's see if I'm just crazy.

[Eldan]

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I think it's red? Or reddish-brown? The etymology might be connected to vermis, so I'm assuming it's an insect-based pigment, like cochineal carmine.

[moonfly7]

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I think it's red? Or reddish-brown? The etymology might be connected to vermis, so I'm assuming it's an insect-based pigment, like cochineal carmine.

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you're right, although the fact that you didn't know for sure tells me that your just an amazing deductive reasoner. I'm suitably impressed both with your logic and your knowledge of etymology

[Roland St. Jude]

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Scarlet. It's sometimes used to describe the color of blood or maybe just the color of blood in artwork.

[Eldan]

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you're right, although the fact that you didn't know for sure tells me that your just an amazing deductive reasoner. I'm suitably impressed both with your logic and your knowledge of etymology

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I mean, I'm cheating. I'm an entomologist, so insect-derrived pigments are part of my job.

[Fyraltari]

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purplish red?

[smuchmuch]

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I'm pretty sure from memory that Vermillion is a shade of red. Vermeil in french is a flesh pinkish red. While the ethymology make one think of 'vermis' which could hint at the cochenille, though the pigment coming from the cochenille is called 'carmine' in english. In fact unuisre if Vermillon, Vermeil and Carmine may be the same, langage barrier and all....

[halfeye]

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Vermillion is an orangy red colour.

I had some vermillion painting ink once.

This one:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Winsor-Newt...5829030&sr=8-1

The image of the ink bottle was huge for some reason.

[Iruka]

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Pretty sure it is some kind of red, possibly close to crimson? I remember because we once had to do presentations about songs in school and a classmate chose Vermillion by Slipknot.

[sktarq]

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Red.
Crayola Vermillion IIRC tends to lean an orange-red
Classic Bug Vermillion again IIRC tended to be the Caucasian scalebug not the Mexican (also pre-tin boosting) and was thus "lighter" than the portugese/med stuff which tended more purple/brown tone of red...but that could just be a fastness/mordent issue.
But with some bad tranlations some was also the mercury red with marketing issues.

EDIT: I may have a book on the history of red dye on my shelf that I'm tapping the memory of

[Imbalance]

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The only firm reference I have for the term is in reference to a silvery crown with red jewels, iirc, so I thought it was red.

[DeTess]

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First instinct was red, but then I started wondering whether it wouldn't be some kind of green instead. I'm wondering about where the association with green comes from now.

[Tvtyrant]

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First instinct was red, but then I started wondering whether it wouldn't be some kind of green instead. I'm wondering about where the association with green comes from now.

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The red green show?

[Peelee]

This is very unfair since I'm colorblind and I quite literally wouldn't know what vermillion was if it came up and bit me.

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Based solely on the name, I'd guess greenish? I'm assuming it's from a romantic source which tends to have "ver" ish words being green.

[understatement]

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Hmm, first instinct is orange...is it a bright red? Like, neon-traffic light red?

[Taffimai]

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A bright red, trending towards orange

[moonfly7]

This is very unfair since I'm colorblind and I quite literally wouldn't know what vermillion was if it came up and bit me.

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Based solely on the name, I'd guess greenish? I'm assuming it's from a romantic source which tends to have "ver" ish words being green.

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you and me both buddy. Exact same reasons.

It is official, I'm just dumb. Because only like, 1 other dude got it wrong. I blame the fact that at least one of you was an entomologist and I suspect I was answered by at least 1 art degree, and perhaps a linguist.

[Rynjin]

Don't really need to be a linguist; a lot of red things in media are referred to as vermillion (typically phoenixes and similarly fire related stuff).

[Peelee]

Don't really need to be a linguist; a lot of red things in media are referred to as vermillion (typically phoenixes and similarly fire related stuff).

Today I learned I don't read about a lot of fire-related stuff.

[Xuc Xac]

It's red. When I learned the word, I also learned what it meant, just like every other color word. I'm curious how you even learn the word "vermillion" (or "scarlet", "crimson", "carnelian", etc.) without being shown a picture of it or being told that it means "red".

[moonfly7]

Don't really need to be a linguist; a lot of red things in media are referred to as vermillion (typically phoenixes and similarly fire related stuff).

Seriously, never once have I consciously noticed it in descriptions of red things. Clearly it's there, and I now realise that I often confused it with veridian, but I read a lot of books and I must have just passed over it.

It's red. When I learned the word, I also learned what it meant, just like every other color word. I'm curious how you even learn the word "vermillion" (or "scarlet", "crimson", "carnelian", etc.) without being shown a picture of it or being told that it means "red".

Because I learn via reading? And the first time I saw it it was likely on something that could have been either? The same way anyone doesn't know things 100% I imagine. Very few colors do I actually look up when I first see them written. Many times context clues give it away. This is actually how I learned it was red: a books context clues.

[Rynjin]

Case in point, I still have no idea what chartreuse looks like. As far as I'm concerned it only exists in fiction.

[Eldan]

I google what Chartreuse is every time I heard the word. Before googling today, I sort of had an idea in my head it was something between grey and violet. Something like this.

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It's not. It's between yellow and green.

[Tvtyrant]

There are also a fair number of colors that computers render differently then natural light, so looking up a color might not actually be helpful.

[Peelee]

Case in point, I still have no idea what chartreuse looks like. As far as I'm concerned it only exists in fiction.

Back when my dad was alive, on rare occasion he would enjoy going on about the single worst movie he ever saw, The Chartreuse Caboose. To the point that I can't ever think of anyone else when I hear that word.

[moonfly7]

Case in point, I still have no idea what chartreuse looks like. As far as I'm concerned it only exists in fiction.

I google what Chartreuse is every time I heard the word. Before googling today, I sort of had an idea in my head it was something between grey and violet. Something like this.

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It's not. It's between yellow and green.

I'm glad I'm not alone in my color disparity then. For what it's worth, I wouldn't have known where to start with Chartreuse.

[The_Snark]

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First instinct was red, but then I started wondering whether it wouldn't be some kind of green instead. I'm wondering about where the association with green comes from now.

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You might be remembering viridian, which is a kind of green.

[Xuc Xac]

I'm glad I'm not alone in my color disparity then. For what it's worth, I wouldn't have known where to start with Chartreuse.

It's a type of French liqueur with a distinctive color. The color is named after it.

[Domino Quartz]

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A shade of orange, based on nothing other than that Vermilion City in the first-generation Pokémon games was associated with the colour orange.

[Rynael]

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Definitely some shade of red, but I'm not sure exactly which. I can thank VVVVVV, the indie game, for teaching me this (all of the crewmembers are named after the color they're drawn as).

I feel like asking the kind of people who frequent a D&D/webcomic internet forum is probably a major selection bias of some kind, though. That's very much not a random sample of the population, and I feel like almost everyone here knowing might say more about this forum than your friend group.