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The color periwinkle is also called lavender blue and light blue violet. 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.
In the United Kingdom, many native speakers of English refer to the blue-dominated spectral color beyond blue as violet, but this color is called purple by many speakers in the United States. In some texts the term violet refers to any color between red and blue.
Even among many modern speakers within the English-speaking world there is confusion about the terms purple and violet. 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.
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.
Absolute Zero Acid green Aero African violet Air superiority blue Alabaster Alice blue Alizarin Alloy orange Almond Amaranth Amaranth deep purple Amaranth pink Amaranth purple Amazon Amber Amber (SAE/ECE) Amethyst Amethyst (Crayola) Android green Antique brass Antique bronze Antique fuchsia Antique ruby Antique white Apricot Aqua Aquamarine Aquamarine (Crayola) Arctic lime Artichoke green ...
According to some speakers of English, purple is simply a combination, in various proportions, of two primary colors, red and blue. [48] According to other speakers of English, the same range of colors is called violet.
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.
Navy blue is a shade of the standard (h = 240°) blue. Navy blue got its name from the dark blue (contrasted with white) worn by sailors in the Royal Navy since 1748 (originally called marine blue before 1840) and subsequently adopted by other navies around the world. The first recorded use of navy blue as a color name in English was in 1840.
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.
The theory of color includes the color complements; color balance; and classification of primary colors (traditionally red, yellow, blue ), secondary colors (traditionally orange, green, purple) and tertiary colors. The study of colors in general is called color science .