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  2. Shades of purple - Wikipedia

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    The color orchid is a bright rich purple. The name 'orchid' originates from the flowers of some species of the vast orchid flower family, such as Laelia furfuracea and Ascocentrum pusillum, which have petals of this color. The first recorded use of orchid as a color name in English was in 1915.

  3. List of colors by shade - Wikipedia

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    Tones of violet tending towards the blue are called indigo. Purple colors are colors that are various blends of violet or blue light with red light.

  4. Violet (color) - Wikipedia

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    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, some of which humans perceive as similar to violet.

  5. The 19 Best Colors to Pair with Purple, According to Designers

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  6. Lavender (color) - Wikipedia

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    The color lavender might be described as a medium purple, a pale bluish purple, [4] 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.

  7. Purple - Wikipedia

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    The standard HTML color purple is created by red and blue light of equal intensity, at a brightness that is halfway between full power and darkness. In color printing, purple is sometimes represented by the color magenta, or sometimes by mixing magenta with red or blue. It can also be created by mixing just red and blue alone, but in that case ...

  8. Shades of violet - Wikipedia

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    The blue-dominated spectral color beyond blue is referred to as purple by many speakers in the United States, but this color is called violet by many speakers in the United Kingdom. [3] [4] In some British authoritative texts the term purple refers to any mixture of red and blue, suggesting the color term purple covers the full range between ...

  9. Lilac (color) - Wikipedia

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    Lilac is a light shade of Purple representing the average color of most lilac flowers. The colors of some lilac flowers may be equivalent to the colors shown below as pale lilac, rich lilac, or deep lilac. However, there are other lilac flowers that are colored red-violet .

  10. Lists of colors - Wikipedia

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    These are the lists of colors ; List of colors: A–F. List of colors: G–M. List of colors: N–Z. List of colors (alphabetical) List of colors by shade. List of color palettes. List of Crayola crayon colors. List of RAL colours.

  11. Orchid (color) - Wikipedia

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    Orchid is a bright rich purple color that resembles the color which various orchids often exhibit. Various tones of orchid may range from grayish purple to purplish-pink to strong reddish purple. The first recorded use of orchid as a color name in English was in 1915.