Vermilion
Red color from powdered cinnabar (HgS) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other uses, see Vermilion (disambiguation).
Vermilion (sometimes vermillion)[1] is a color family and pigment most often used between antiquity and the 19th century from the powdered mineral cinnabar (a form of mercury sulfide). It is synonymous with red orange, which often takes a modern form, but is 11% brighter (at full brightness).