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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 ...
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.
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) 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 printing, violet is created with a combination of magenta and cyan pigments, with more magenta than cyan. On the RGB / CMY ( K) color wheel, violet is located between blue and magenta. Violet is closely associated with purple.
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.
Web colors are colors used in displaying web pages on the World Wide Web; they can be described by way of three methods: a color may be specified as an RGB triplet, in hexadecimal format (a hex triplet) or according to its common English name in some cases.
Color coordinates; Hex triplet: #B784A7: sRGB B (r, g, b) (183, 132, 167) HSV (h, s, v) (319°, 28%, 72%) CIELCh uv (L, C, h) (61, 34, 324°) Source: ISCC-NBS: ISCC–NBS descriptor: Light reddish purple: B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
Color coordinates; Hex triplet: #C8A2C8: sRGB B (r, g, b) (200, 162, 200) HSV (h, s, v) (300°, 19%, 78%) CIELCh uv (L, C, h) (71, 32, 308°) Source: ISCC–NBS descriptor: Light purple: B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
Color coordinates; Hex triplet: #DF73FF: sRGB B (r, g, b) (223, 115, 255) HSV (h, s, v) (286°, 55%, 100%) CIELCh uv (L, C, h) (66, 102, 295°) Source: Maerz and Paul: ISCC–NBS descriptor: Vivid purple: B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
Color coordinates; Hex triplet: #DDA0DD: sRGB B (r, g, b) (221, 160, 221) HSV (h, s, v) (300°, 28%, 87%) CIELCh uv (L, C, h) (73, 50, 308°) Source: X11: ISCC–NBS descriptor: Light reddish purple: B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)