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Shades of purple. There are numerous variations of the color purple, a sampling of which is shown below. In common English usage, purple is a range of hues of color occurring between red and blue. [1] However, the meaning of the term purple is not well defined. There is confusion about the meaning of the terms purple and violet even among ...
A typical RGB color selector in graphics software. Each slider ranges from 0 to 255. Hexadecimal 8-bit RGB representations of the main 125 colors. A color in the RGB color model is described by indicating how much of each of the red, green, and blue is included.
Dark reddish purple. B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) The color Japanese violet or Sumire is shown at right. This is the color called "violet" in the traditional Japanese colors group, a group of colors in use since beginning in 660 CE in the form of various dyes that are used in designing kimono.
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 ( K) color wheel, violet is located between blue and magenta. Violet is closely associated with purple.
The typical artists' paint or pigment color wheel includes the blue, red, and yellow primary colors. The corresponding secondary colors are green, orange, and violet or purple. The tertiary colors are green-yellow, yellow-orange, orange-red, red-violet/purple, purple/violet-blue and blue-green.
This lavender also closely matches the color given as lavender in a basic purple color chart. Amethyst [ edit ] Amethyst as a quaternary color on the RYB color wheel
Color coordinates; Hex triplet: #BD33A4: sRGB B (r, g, b) (189, 51, 164) HSV (h, s, v) (311°, 73%, 74%) CIELCh uv (L, C, h) (47, 86, 321°) Source /Maerz and Paul: ISCC–NBS descriptor: Vivid reddish purple: B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
For instance, a purple of medium lightness and fairly saturated would be 5P 5/10 with 5P meaning the color in the middle of the purple hue band, 5/ meaning medium value (lightness), and a chroma of 10 (see swatch). An achromatic color is specified by the syntax N V/. For example, a medium grey is specified by "N 5/".
1931 CIE chromaticity diagram showing some RGB color spaces as defined by their chromaticity triangles. RGB color spaces are additive colorimetric color spaces specifying part of its absolute color space definition using the RGB color model.
RGBA color model. Example of an RGBA image composited over a checkerboard background. alpha is 0% at the top and 100% at the bottom. RGBA stands for red green blue alpha. While it is sometimes described as a color space, it is actually a three-channel RGB color model supplemented with a fourth alpha channel.