carmine vs high color

carmine

• A purplish-red colour, resembling that pigment. 

• A purplish-red pigment, made from dye obtained from the cochineal beetle; carminic acid or any of its derivatives. 

• carmine 

• Of the purplish red colour shade carmine. 

high color

• a strong color 

• a pinkness or redness of the face; having rosacea; having a flushed face 

• graphics with two bytes of storage per pixel, allowing for up to 65536 different colors