Carmine is the general term for a particularly deep red

Red

Red is any of a number of similar colors evoked by light consisting predominantly of the longest wavelengths of light discernible by the human eye, in the wavelength range of roughly 630–740 nm. Longer wavelengths than this are called infrared , and cannot be seen by the naked eye...

 color. Some Rubies

Ruby

A ruby is a pink to blood-red colored gemstone, a variety of the mineral corundum . The red color is caused mainly by the presence of the element chromium. Its name comes from ruber, Latin for red. Other varieties of gem-quality corundum are called sapphires...

 are colored the color shown below as rich carmine. The deep red color shown below as carmine is the color of the raw unprocessed pigment

Pigment

A pigment is a material that changes the color of reflected or transmitted light as the result of wavelength-selective absorption. This physical process differs from fluorescence, phosphorescence, and other forms of luminescence, in which a material emits light.Many materials selectively absorb...

, but lighter, richer, or brighter colors are produced when the raw pigment is processed, some of which are shown below.

Carmine

The first recorded use of carmine as a color name in English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 was in 1523.

Carmine in human culture

Crime Scene Investigation

• The name is often applied to descriptions of blood
  Blood
  Blood is a specialized bodily fluid in animals that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells....
  
  , because it is the color of dried blood.

Music

Music

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• Carmine is one of the colors mentioned in Donovan's Wear Your Love Like Heaven Wear Your Love Like Heaven
  Wear Your Love Like Heaven
  "Wear Your Love Like Heaven" is a song and US-single by Donovan, released in 1967. It became the opening title of his double album A Gift from a Flower to a Garden...
  
  

Sports

• Carmines is occasionally used as a nickname for the Boston Red Sox
  Boston Red Sox
  The Boston Red Sox are a professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts, and a member of Major League Baseball’s American League Eastern Division. Founded in as one of the American League's eight charter franchises, the Red Sox's home ballpark has been Fenway Park since . The "Red Sox"...
  
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• Carmine is an original colorway of the Air Jordan
  Air Jordan
  Air Jordan, also known simply as Jordans, are a brand of shoes and athletic apparel produced by Nike originally designed for and endorsed by NBA Hall of Famer and Six Time NBA Champion Michael Jordan. The Air Jordan line is now sold by the Jordan Brand subsidiary of Nike...
  
   VI sneaker from 1991.

Television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

• The color of the Redshirt (character)
  Redshirt (character)
  A "redshirt" is a stock character in fiction who dies soon after being introduced. The term originates with fans of Star Trek , from the red shirts worn by Starfleet security officers who frequently die during episodes.-Star Trek:...
  
   of Star Trek
  Star Trek
  Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment franchise created by Gene Roddenberry. The core of Star Trek is its six television series: The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise...
  
  's shirts is Carmine. In addition, as a play on this, a quickly-dying soldier in Gears of War
  Gears of War
  Gears of War is a military science fiction third-person shooter video game developed by Epic Games and published by Microsoft Game Studios...
  
  is named Carmine.