Editing Red (section)

{{short description|Primary color}}
{{about|the color}}
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{{Infobox color
| title=Red
| image={{photomontage
| photo1a=Strawberries.jpg
| photo1b=Cardinal.jpg
| photo1c=
| photo2a=Cardinal Théodore Adrien Sarr 2.JPG
| photo2b=
| photo2c=Magdalena Frackowiak.jpg
| photo3a=Chinese honor guard in column 070322-F-0193C-014.JPEG
| size = 243
| color_border = #AAAAAA
| color =  #F9F9F9
| foot_montage = }}
| caption= Clockwise, from top left: fresh [[Strawberry|strawberries]]; [[Northern cardinal]]; [[Magdalena Frąckowiak]] wearing a red dress at [[Paris Fashion Week]]; Honor guard of Chinese [[People's Liberation Army]] holding [[Red flag (politics)|red flags]]; [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|Cardinal]] [[Théodore-Adrien Sarr]], Archbishop of [[Dakar]].
| hex=FF0000
| wavelength=Approx. 625–740<ref name="Georgia State University Department of Physics and Astronomy">{{cite web |url=http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/vision/specol.html |title=Spectral Colors |website=HyperPhysics site |author=Georgia State University Department of Physics and Astronomy |access-date=October 20, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171027012933/http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/vision/specol.html |archive-date=October 27, 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
| frequency=~480–400
| source=[[X11 color names|X11]]
|cmyk=(0, 100, 100, 0)|c=0|m=100|y=100|k=0}}

'''Red''' is the [[color]] at the long wavelength end of the [[visible spectrum]] of light, next to [[Orange (colour)|orange]] and opposite [[Violet (color)|violet]]. It has a [[dominant wavelength]] of approximately 625–750 [[nanometre]]s.<ref name="Georgia State University Department of Physics and Astronomy" /> It is a primary color in the [[RGB color model]] and a secondary color (made from [[magenta]] and [[yellow]]) in the [[CMYK color model]], and is the [[complementary color]] of [[cyan]]. Reds range from the brilliant yellow-tinged [[Scarlet (color)|scarlet]] and [[Vermilion|vermillion]] to bluish-red [[crimson]], and vary in shade from the pale red [[pink]] to the dark red [[burgundy (color)|burgundy]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=A dictionary of color|last1=Maerz|first1=A|last2=Paul|first2=M. R.|date=1930|publisher=McGraw-Hill Book Co.|location=New York|language=en|oclc=1150631}}</ref>

Red pigment made from [[ochre]] was one of the first colors used in [[prehistoric art]]. The [[Ancient Egypt]]ians and [[Mayan civilization|Mayans]] colored their faces red in ceremonies; [[Roman Empire|Roman]] generals had their bodies colored red to celebrate victories. It was also an important color in [[China]], where it was used to color early pottery and later the gates and walls of palaces.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Chinese red|last=Chunling|first=Y.|publisher=Foreign Languages Press|year=2008|isbn=9787119045313|location=Beijing|oclc=319395390|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/chinesered0000yanc}}</ref>{{Rp|60–61}} In the [[Renaissance]], the brilliant red costumes for the nobility and wealthy were dyed with [[kermes (dye)|kermes]] and [[cochineal]]. The 19th century brought the introduction of the first synthetic red dyes, which replaced the traditional dyes. Red became [[Red (politics)|a symbolic color]] of [[communism]] and [[socialism]]; [[Soviet Russia]] adopted a [[Red flag (politics)|red flag]] following the [[Bolshevik Revolution]] in 1917. The [[Flag of the Soviet Union|Soviet red banner]] would subsequently be used throughout the entire history of the [[Soviet Union]]. China adopted [[Flag of China|its own red flag]] following the [[Chinese Communist Revolution]]. A red flag [[Flag of Vietnam|was also adopted]] by [[North Vietnam]] in 1954, and by all of Vietnam in 1975.

Since red is the color of [[blood]], it has historically been associated with sacrifice, danger, and courage. Modern surveys in [[Europe]] and the [[United States]] show red is also the color most commonly associated with heat, activity, passion, sexuality, anger, love, and joy. In China, [[India]], and many other Asian countries it is the color symbolizing happiness and good fortune.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title=Psychologie de la couleur: effets et symboliques|last=Heller|first=Eva|date=1948|publisher=Pyramid|isbn=9782350171562|location=Paris|oclc=470802996}}</ref>{{Rp|39–63}}