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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 ...
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.
The color periwinkle is also called lavender blue and light blue violet. [2] The color periwinkle may be considered a pale tint of purple-blue in the Munsell color system, or a " pastel purple-blue". The color can represent serenity, calmness, winter, and ice.
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.
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.
Color coordinates; Hex triplet: #DA70D6: sRGB B (r, g, b) (218, 112, 214) HSV (h, s, v) (302°, 49%, 85%) CIELCh uv (L, C, h) (63, 80, 310°) Source: X11: ISCC–NBS descriptor: Vivid purple: B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
Systems with a 12-bit RGB palette use 4 bits for each of the red, green, and blue color components. This results in a (2 4) 3 = 16 3 = 4096-color palette. 12-bit color can be represented with three hexadecimal digits, also known as shorthand hexadecimal form, which is commonly used in web design.
The taxonomical name of this Rabbitear Iris is Iris laevigata. The iris genus contains 260–300 species of flower, many of them of blue and purple shades. Iris. Color coordinates. Hex triplet. #5A4FCF. sRGB B ( r, g, b)
The 80 hex value, which is 128 in decimal, represents a 50.2% alpha value because 128 is approximately 50.2% of the maximum value of 255 (FF hex); to continue to decipher the 80FFFF00 value, the first FF represents the maximum value red can have; the second FF is like the previous but for green; the final 00 represents the minimum value blue ...
The color raspberry glacé is displayed on the right. It is a medium shade of raspberry that is used in interior design. The first recorded use of raspberry glacé as a color name in English was in 1926. The source of this color is the Plochere Color System, a color system formulated in 1948 that is widely used by interior designers.