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Dark Purple Color coordinates; Hex triplet #301934: sRGB B (r, g, b) (48, 25, 52) HSV (h, s, v) (291°, 52%, 20%) CIELCh uv (L, C, h) (13, 15, 300°) Source: ISCC-NBS: ISCC–NBS descriptor: Very dark purple: B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
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.
Purple and Violet Main articles: Purple , Shades of purple , Violet (color) , and Shades of violet Violet refers to any colour perceptually evoked by light with a predominant wavelength of roughly 380–450 nm.
Violet is closely associated with purple. In optics, violet is a spectral color (referring to the color of different single wavelengths of light), whereas purple is the color of various combinations of red and blue (or violet) light, [5] [6] some of which humans perceive as similar to violet.
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.
The color lavender might be described as a medium purple, a pale bluish purple, or a light pinkish-purple. The term lavender may be used in general to apply to a wide range of pale, light, or grayish-purples, but only on the blue side; lilac is pale purple on the pink side.
Dark Purple Color coordinates; Hex triplet #301934: sRGB B (r, g, b) (48, 25, 52) HSV (h, s, v) (291°, 52%, 20%) CIELCh uv (L, C, h) (13, 15, 300°) Source: ISCC-NBS: ISCC–NBS descriptor: Very dark purple: B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
Red-Purple Color coordinates; Hex triplet: #E40078: sRGB B (r, g, b) (228, 0, 120) HSV (h, s, v) (328°, 100%, 89%) CIELCh uv (L, C, h) (49, 125, 353°) Source: Gallego and Sanz: ISCC–NBS descriptor: Vivid purplish red: B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
Tyrian purple is a pigment made from the mucus of several species of Murex snail. Production of Tyrian purple for use as a fabric dye began as early as 1200 BC by the Phoenicians, and was continued by the Greeks and Romans until 1453 AD, with the fall of Constantinople.
Han purple in its pure form is actually a dark blue, that is close to indigo. It is a purple in the way the term is used in colloquial English , i.e., it is a color between red and blue . It is not, however, a purple in the way the term is used in color science , i.e. a nonspectral color between red and violet on the 'line of purples' on the ...