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Maybe related: Why do "red" products (i.e., dyes, paints, markers, pencils, pens) from China appear red-orange? Does it have something to do with language?

• stan_rogers 5y ago
  In English, generic "red" used to mean something very close to orange (thus red hair, red-breasted robins, etc.). Blood red or rose red were usually called out. These days, outside of colour spaces, we distinguish between crimson (cold/bluish) and scarlet (warm/orangish) when it actually matters, and the default "red" is somewhere in the middle, probably because we added orange to the lexicon.
  • stooliepidgin 5y ago
    You're conflating a range of colors with a single color. "In the middle" is red. Red is red. It's not red-orange. It's not red-blue.
    • svachalek 5y ago
      This reminds me a lot of "I don't have an accent! YOU have an accent!"
      • stooliepidgin 5y ago
        If you have something positive, not social media outrage bait, not a red herring, and interesting to contribute to the conversation, let me know.
• kevin_thibedeau 5y ago
  They're imitating the color of cinnabar lacquerware.