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The tertiary color on the HSV color wheel (also known as the RGB color wheel) precisely halfway between blue and magenta is called color wheel violet. This tone of violet—an approximation of the color violet at about 417 nanometers as plotted on the CIE chromaticity diagram—is shown at right.
Violet light has a wavelength between approximately 380 and 435 nanometers. [2] The color's name is derived from the Viola genus of flowers. [3] [4] In the RGB color model used in computer and television screens, violet is produced by mixing red and blue light, with more blue than red.
Violet refers to any colour perceptually evoked by light with a predominant wavelength of roughly 380–450 nm. 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.
In formal color theory, purple colors often refer to the colors on the line of purples on the CIE chromaticity diagram (or colors that can be derived from colors on the line of purples), i.e., any color between red and violet, not including either red or violet themselves.
Although the web color "violet" may be called light violet it is technically actually a light magenta, since the red and blue values of the color are equal (which signifies for computer display that this color is a shade of magenta), and therefore another name for this color is lavender magenta, analogous to the colors lavender gray, lavender ...
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.
Color coordinates; Hex triplet: #E0B0FF: sRGB B (r, g, b) (224, 176, 255) HSV (h, s, v) (276°, 31%, 100%) CIELCh uv (L, C, h) (79, 61, 290°) Source: Maerz and Paul: ISCC–NBS descriptor: Brilliant purple: B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
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 .
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Types of violet. This category is for all varieties of the color violet, not only shades in the technical sense. See also: Category:Shades of magenta.
Color theory, or more specifically traditional color theory, is the historical body of knowledge describing the behavior of colors, namely in color mixing, color contrast effects, color harmony, color schemes and color symbolism. Modern color theory is generally referred to as Color science.