Typography question: is there a name for 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 red you see used everywhere for a classy emphasis (based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubrication … )? eg https://unitscale.com/mb/rebuilding-the-typographic-society/slides/21.jpg … https://yalebooks.co.uk/localjackets/l/9780300143324.jpg … https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/the-book-of-the-new-sun.html … http://luc.devroye.org/Symms-15thcentury-blackletter.jpg … http://luc.devroye.org/Symms-14thcentury-Lombardic.jpg … Just 'rubrication'?
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I'm not sure about that. Contact between Tibet and Europe was very sparse. (They're still debating whether Hume was influenced or not.) The combination of 'red is maximal contrast' and 'red inks are very cheap & easy to make' explains parallel evolution of sacred rubrication.
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Isn't red also the color most commonly differentiated in speech after dark/light (black/white)? I'm not familiar with the progression of, and challenges to, Berlin and Kay's "color evolution" theory, but it seems to give some explanation as to why the third color would be red.
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