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The color purple, as defined in the X11 color names in 1987, is brighter and bluer than the HTML/CSS web color purple shown above as purple (HTML/CSS color). This is one of the very few clashes between web and X11 colors. This color can be called X11 purple. Veronica prostrata, for which the color veronica is named.
Magenta is variously defined as a purplish-red, reddish-purple, or a mauvish–crimson color. On color wheels of the RGB and CMY color models, it is located midway between red and blue, opposite green. Complements of magenta are evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 500–530 nm.
Seven-color and twelve-color color circles from 1708, attributed to Claude Boutet. Wilhelm von Bezold's 1874 Farbentafel. A color wheel or color circle[ 1 ] is an abstract illustrative organization of color hues around a circle, which shows the relationships between primary colors, secondary colors, tertiary colors etc.
Purple is a color similar in appearance to violet light. In the RYB color model historically used in the arts, purple is a secondary color created by combining red and blue pigments. In the CMYK color model used in modern printing, purple is made by combining magenta pigment with either cyan pigment, black pigment, or both.
Mauve (from the French form of Malva "mallow") is a color that is named after the mallow flower. Another name for the color is mallow[27] with the first recorded use of mallow as a color name in English in 1611. [28] Since the color mauve has a hue code of 276, it may be regarded as a pale tone of violet.
In the RYB color model historically used by painters, violet is created with a combination of red and blue pigments and is located between blue and purple on the color wheel. In the CMYK color model used in printing, violet is created with a combination of magenta and cyan pigments, with more magenta than cyan. On the RGB/CMY color wheel ...
Fuchsia (/ ˈfjuːʃə /, FEW-shə) is a vivid pinkish-purplish- red color, [ 1 ] named after the color of the flower of the fuchsia plant, which was named by a French botanist, Charles Plumier, after the 16th-century German botanist Leonhart Fuchs. The color fuchsia was introduced as the color of a new aniline dye called fuchsine, patented in ...
Plum is a purple color with a brownish-gray tinge, like that shown on the right, or a reddish purple, which is a close representation of the average color of the plum fruit. As a quaternary color on the RYB color wheel, plum is an equal mix of the tertiary colors russet and slate. [2][3] The first recorded use of plum as a color name in English ...