enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Color psychology - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_psychology

    Color psychology is the study of hues as a determinant of human behavior. Color influences perceptions that are not obvious, such as the taste of food. Colors have qualities that can cause certain emotions in people. [1] How color influences individuals may differ depending on age, gender, and culture. [2]

  3. Heliotrope (color) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliotrope_(color)

    CIELCh uv ( L, C, h) (66, 102, 295°) Source. Maerz and Paul [1] ISCC–NBS descriptor. Vivid purple. B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) Heliotrope is a pink - purple tint that is a representation of the colour of the heliotrope flower . The first recorded use of heliotrope as a color name in English was in 1882.

  4. Red-violet - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-violet

    A red-violet used on a postage stamp. Red-violet refers to a rich color of high medium saturation about 3/4 of the way between red and magenta, closer to magenta than to red. [1] In American English, this color term is sometimes used in color theory as one of the purple colors—a non- spectral color between red and violet that is a deep ...

  5. Puce - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puce

    Puce is a brownish purple color. The term comes from the French couleur puce, literally meaning "flea color".. Puce became popular in the late 18th century in France. It appeared in clothing at the court of Louis XVI, and was said to be a favorite color of Marie Antoinette, though there are no portraits of her wearing it.

  6. Purple fringing - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_fringing

    In photography (particularly digital photography ), purple fringing (sometimes called PF) is the term for an unfocused purple or magenta "ghost" image on a photograph. This optical aberration is generally most visible as a coloring and lightening of dark edges adjacent to bright areas of broad- spectrum illumination, such as daylight or various ...

  7. Secondary color - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_color

    A RYB color wheel with tertiary colors described under the modern definition. RYB is a subtractive mixing color model, used to estimate the mixing of pigments (e.g. paint) in traditional color theory, with primary colors red, yellow, and blue. The secondary colors are green, purple, and orange as demonstrated here: red.

  8. Murasaki - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murasaki

    Murasaki Kimidori, a character from the anime and manga series Dr. Slump. Ninja Murasaki, a member of the Red Ribbon Army in the anime and manga series Dragon Ball. Murasaki Kuhōin, a character from the light novel, anime and manga series Kure-nai. Akane Kurashiki, who is nicknamed "Murasaki" in Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors.

  9. Color of chemicals - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_of_chemicals

    The color of chemicals is a physical property of chemicals that in most cases comes from the excitation of electrons due to an absorption of energy performed by the chemical. What is seen by the eye is not the color absorbed, but the complementary color from the removal of the absorbed wavelengths. This spectral perspective was first noted in ...