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

[Beleriphon]

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It is a distinct red/orange. See example in the link, I've been there in person, definitely orange hued, less red then say blood.

https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e3915.html

[Peelee]

Ethymology being, naturally, the study of the origin of nouns while drunk.

The study of English, you say?

[Fyraltari]

The study of English, you say?

Ha! Nice one.

[anthon]

vermilion is the color of fire. meaning it has color shades that transition between gold, red, orange, and near white, but mostly shifts between red and gold.

[anthon]

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A bright red, trending towards orange

this is near close to perfect answer

[sihnfahl]

I'm surprised some folks didn't mention...

"Powders and dyes! Newly arrived at great risk from the Eurasian zone! Display your love with a streak of vermilion! Highlight those eyes with a dash of rare cerulean! Powders and dyes!"

[TexasSkiandFish]

Easy for me, I have caught many vermillion snapper fishing in the gulf of mexico. Although, to be honest I had no idea it was a color.

[Taevyr]

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It sounds like it ought to be green, probably due to the "vert" in there, but I feel like I vaguely remember it being red.

So I'll go with red

[Unavenger]

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It's red, and I was always fairly well-aware of that as far as I can remember.

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"Viridian" means green, and is probably a far better-known or better-half-known word, or at least there's a decent chance. "Vər-_ən, where - is a strong syllable and _ is a weak syllable, is easy to get mixed up if you half-remember something.

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Isn't real. People's memories just fail in predictable ways.

[janetJ]

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I think it is red

[Yourt19]

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I remember that it has a dark red color.

[Breezeshadow]

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.

Red, I believe.

[Breezeshadow]

Though I used to think it was purple for some reason.

[Sigako]

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"Viridian" means green, and is probably a far better-known or better-half-known word, or at least there's a decent chance. "Vər-_ən, where - is a strong syllable and _ is a weak syllable, is easy to get mixed up if you half-remember something.

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"Verdigris" is also a popular word, and it's that green patina forming on corroding copper, and the color of said patina.

[Willie the Duck]

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"Verdigris" is also a popular word, and it's that green patina forming on corroding copper, and the color of said patina.

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Or just "Verdant"

Also: submitted without comment: Vermilion Cliffs national monument

[Unavenger]

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Or just "Verdant"

Also: submitted without comment: Vermilion Cliffs national monument

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Yeah, I suspect that all these Vir-/Ver- words (which of course come from a fairly obvious root word meaning green, whereas I couldn't tell you the etymology of vermillion offhand) add to the confusion.

[enderlord99]

Vermillion and chartreuse are each the color most people (including me) think of first when they hear the other's name.

[SaintRidley]

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".

Pokemon's Kanto region is literally the only context I have ever encountered the word vermillion in, and at no point would I have guessed red.

[Peelee]

Pokemon's Kanto region is literally the only context I have ever encountered the word vermillion in, and at no point would I have guessed red.

Seconded. In fact, every city in Pokémon was green. It was a lovely green palet, being as I had an OG Gameboy and all.

[SaintRidley]

Seconded. In fact, every city in Pokémon was green. It was a lovely green palet, being as I had an OG Gameboy and all.

I never played on the fat gameboy, but that didn't help me figure out what half of the colors the towns in the egion are named for were. Literally the only reason I could guess cinnabar was some kind of red was because I know what cinnamon is and Blaine's a fire trainer. Cerulean is actually a semi-uncommonly used word, so I knew it was blue. Vermillion City had Lt. Surge, so I think yellow made the most sense to me.

To be honest, the only reason I knew half the towns in Kanto were named for colors at all was the fact that the game kind of drives that home and makes it clear through puns like Pallet(te) town pointing the way. Doesn't mean there's more than two or three towns in there game where I could actually accurately guess the actual color that goes with the word, though.

[MrHabit]

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.

No Google, off the top of my head: Red? I think of it as a maroony-red.

[Aedilred]

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I had long thought of it as a reddish-pink purple but realised a few years ago that it's actually red.

[GravityEmblem]

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The fact that Vermillion City has the Electric Gym led me to believe it was yellow. But it's actually red. I've known that for quite a while, actually. In fact, my first thought on learning it was "but...electricity is yellow!"

[No1ofIntrst]

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I've seen enough of these to know it is dark red. However, I feel like the name should be swapped to reffering to green (maybe a very deep green). I feel like the reason I know it as green is due to both "vert" being green in french, and due to veridian/vermillion sounding far too similar, and thus forever messing up my perception of colour

[Squire Doodad]

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It's a red/orange color. I thought it was a yellow for years because of Pokemon RBY.

Seconded. In fact, every city in Pokémon was green. It was a lovely green palet, being as I had an OG Gameboy and all.

I believe if you play it on the GBC, the cities get tinted the relevant color.

[Xuc Xac]

I feel like the reason I know it as green is due to both "vert" being green in french, and due to veridian/vermillion sounding far too similar, and thus forever messing up my perception of colour

"Blanche" means "to turn white" even though it starts with the same letters as "black".

Viridian (with an i) is a bluish-green from the Latin for "green".
Vermilion is reddish-orange, from the Latin for "worm" or "vermin" because it was made from crushed bugs.

[Myth27]

Orange

Because of Pokemon

[EmmyNecromancer]

I think vermillion is a shade of red. At least, that's what I think it is.

[NulliusinVerba]

Apropos of nothing, I loved reading some of the comments here. It was very fun to see the guesses and honestly informative to read peoples' comments about ability and bias through this medium.

Someone should do a whole thread where people just list random really obscure colours and see if people can guess what they are without Googling them. We had chartreuse and vermillion already, what about:

• Eggplant?
• Wenge?
• Royal Blue? (I anticipate discussion about the type of blue this is)
• Coquelicot?
• Taupe?
• Malachite?
• Primrose? (No, it's not pink)
• Cobalt?

I'm sure there are plenty more, those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head. I would look up more but... that would kind of defeat the purpose of the game.

[Lord Torath]

I first encountered Vermillion back in the mid eighties watch Robotech. Rick Hunter was assigned to Vermillion squadron, which had red trim.

I always wanted vermillion to be blue.

I always love the line in Diamonds are Forever in the crematorium when the 'usher' says please wait by the "restful chartreuse curtains."