Description
- Pyrrole Red is opaque and has strong covering power.
- According to manufacturer Ciba, which uses the trade name Irgazin Red, it is a clean, highly saturated mid shade red with high temperature resistance, excellent color strength, outstanding chemical, solvent and bleed resistance, and good weather fastness.
- Pyrrole Red, used as an automotive paint and as a colorant in plastics, was developed as one of a range of pigments to replace lead based pigments.
- In art materials, it is often used as a synthetic and lightfast replacement for carmine, a laked pigment that was originally produced from the body of the cochineal insect.
- It is also used to replace the older naphthol reds, organic red pigments that are sometimes only marginally lightfast and weatherfast.