carmine

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Francesco Totti won a Golden Shoe and Serie A's Capocannoniere, but was a renowned playmaker in carmine Roma red.

From BBC • Mar. 3, 2026

For years he’s been reviving the use of natural rather than synthetic textile dyes, notably including carmine.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2024

During this Era of Exploration, consumers also got their pink cheeks and lips from other pigments like carmine, derived from cochineal insects harvested in Central and South America under similar conditions.

From National Geographic • Jul. 21, 2023

VF: Pantone identifies it as a “hybrid color,” or “a carmine red that does not boldly dominate but instead takes a ‘fist in a velvet glove’ approach.”

From Seattle Times • Dec. 2, 2022

So he asks Theo to send him his colors: silver, white, lemon chrome yellow, vermilion, geranium lake, carmine, Prussian blue, very light cinnabar green, orange lead, emerald green, and more.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman