I assure you Crimson is a red.
Else, i'm wrong, my graphic designer girlfrien is wrong, Pantone ("Color" professional) is wrong, as the guys who define names for color in webdevelopping etc.

https://www.pantone.com/color-finder?q=crimson

http://www.w3schools.com/colors/color_tryit.asp?color=Crimson

EDIT : and i forgot i was in "newest comment first" so i'm overburned for this answer. ^^'

As an artist with some knowledge of colour theory: you're both correct. Sorta. The miscommunication comes from understanding of words: a word is usually subjective in that besides its objective meaning (if there is such a thing) the understanding evokes subjective connotations as well. Also, when you translate things, you lose something. Languages don't have the same vocabulary, the same experience space or the same usage. So, as in this case, is the Bulgarian word exactly the same as "purple" in English? In my language literal purple looks different from what English speaking people think as purple. For our 'purple' there is no English word.

Crimson is a red. It's a purplish, dark, deep red, that of a drying blood. You can also say it's a bluish red.

If you look at the colour wheel, specifically the red section, you see that from the absolute middle point of red, half of the reds mix with yellow and half with blue. Crimson is on the bluer side all the way towards where you stop calling red a red (and start calling it purple or something). In everyday language and experience colours vary, and there are people who don't 'see' (ie. don't have the names for) other colours than primary and secondary colours. There is plenty of jokes about it: woman comes home with paint samples and man thinks they're all white is a common trope.

tl;dr: it's red. Purplish red.

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I'll confuse you even further. I'm Russian, in our language Crimson is малиновый which means "of the raspberry colour" :D

I can't say what is right - but as a traditional artist who occasionally engages in borderline art forgery on behalf of my antiques dealer auntie and has developed a knowledge of the history of paint pigments I can only offer my own perspective.

Crimson pigment was originally produced from an insect that fed on the kermes oak which produced a deep red colour. I understand the original pigment fell out of favour after the introduction of the cochineal beetle from Mexico which was far more efficient to produce. That pigment was often described as crimson because that was the colour it was replacing - although it could in practice be deep red or red-purple depending on the sex of the beetle it was produced from or even something between.

Further confusion appears to have been introduced when alizarin and other synthetic pigments began to replace natural pigments - with new varieties of 'crimson' being dependent on a balance between what was similar to the traditional hues and what was cost-effective. By this day and age crimson seems to be used to describe a range of shades according to various paint scales and opinions.

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Hi, kapy! First time seeing you here on SG forums, where have you been.

Crimson is indeed deep red to me as well and to see all these descriptions say it's tinted toward purple are confusing me. The below image is what purple is to me and none of those shades have anything to do with what I see as crimson.

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Randomly adding. A huge thanks to that one person who blacklisted me! Guess you're one of them purple seers and hate people who don't see it purple. I'm watching you, who ever you are -.^

edit; thanks to the person who unblacklisted me <3

Edit; 2 new blacklist since! Team purple is growing T.T

Crimson is a deep dark red with a hint of purple in it. So it's all those things.

Deep Purple?

Crimson is a very deep, almost blood red.

*checks Wikipedia*

"the color "pink" is actually a pale tint of crimson"

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red little bit blue.
so dominant red, move into purple in color pallet

King Purple (Crimson) :)

What you see isn't always what others see.
I mean, you see red, sure, but you can't really prove that it's red. you can say it is the colour of an apple, but for all you know, everyone sees apple in purple and calls it 'red'. So, it doesn't really matter what you see. As for the translation thingy, I guess different language, different meaning.

in French, crimson translate to cramoisi, which means dark red too. It doesn't help you, but just so you know ^^

You're correct - crimson is red, not purple. The term originally described the precise colour of kermes dye (an intense red) and is typically used to describe the colour of blood or red wine. Unless in specific technical contexts, colour names are fairly broad, so a name can refer to many similar but different colours. You'd call something "crimson" if it's a near-perfect red hue - possibly very slightly purplish but not orangey - and heavily saturated (so no pinkish colours), and usually somewhat darkish.

On a linear scale of hue from pure blue to pure red, purple is about 50% red (more or less - it's a broad term), whereas crimson is at least 90% red.

I've seen so many bad translations it's crazy.

The only time I've ever used or seen a "crimson" thing was by playing Diablo, and in that case crimson was roughly dark red, so crimson is red to me :P

Ohoho linguistic relativity? Colour perception has been in debate for several years among linguists.
Btw, this is not a bad translation, this is one reason why things like localization exist.
According to relativists colour perception is a culture-specific phenomena, for example, when I was learning Japanese the teacher told us that to them green is like a shade of blue, also told us that the word "midori" (which is our green) has been used for less than 100 years, and in certain cases people still call blue things that are green, like the green in the traffic light.
As far as I know in Spanish the word "carmesí" comes form Arabic and Persian words used to refer to the bugs because the reddish dye that used to be made form a certain bug.I don't know the etymology of the crimson word in Bulgarian, maybe you should look it up to discover why it is a shade of purple instead of red, there has to be a reason for that.

Crimson is neither blood red nor purple. Crimson is more like... raspberry colored. You know, your most generic raspberry, not the weird bluish or yellowish varieties.

Also, your avatar's hair isn't crimson either but more like burgundy. :p

But the whole matter doesn't actually have anything to do with translation. There's one african language, for example, that only has 9 words in it. You wouldn't really blame them for "badly translating" something, would you? ;) And most languages of Slavic origin (Bulgarian included) usually have way less equivalents for colors than Romanic and Germanic languages so you have to get by using whatever similar words you have.

Translations are hard, words change meaning through time and no one sees colours the exact same way with anyone who says otherwise telling a lie. All together talking perceived colour in detail is more or less meaningless.

For instance the colour of your avatar's hair is not what I would call crimson at all but the definitions are blood red, purplish red, bluish red and anything in between so it does fit. I see it as midway between red and purple and would probably call it purple if pressed though on a whim I looked things up(wikipedia then others) since on further thought that hair colour seemed like what I would expect a dark pink to be and solid pink looks like a match to me.

Which just reiterates my point really, the actual useful colours are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, brown, pink and the dark/light variations thereof leading to white and black, everything else is more trouble than it's worth.

When I saw your thread, thought maybe you'd recently been reading the store page for Remain.