Rose madder
Rose madder (also known as madder) is a red paint made from the pigment madder lake, a traditional lake pigment extracted from the common madder plant Rubia tinctorum.
| Rose Madder | |
|---|---|
Rubia tinctorum, from whose root the colour is extracted | |
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #E32636 |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (227, 38, 54) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (355°, 83%, 89%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (49, 142, 10°) |
| Source | [Unsourced] |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
Madder lake contains two organic red dyes: alizarin and purpurin. As a paint, it has been described as a fugitive, transparent, nonstaining, mid valued, moderately dull violet red pigment in tints and medium solutions, darkening to an impermanent, dull magenta red in masstone.
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