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Deep purple. B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) This purple used in HTML and CSS actually is deeper and has a more reddish hue (#800080) than the X11 color purple shown below as purple (X11 color) (#A020F0), which is bluer and brighter. This is one of the very few clashes between web and X11 colors .
Brown colors are dark or muted shades of reds, oranges, and yellows on the RGB and CMYK color schemes. In practice, browns are created by mixing two complementary colors from the RYB color scheme (combining all three primary colors). In theory, such combinations should produce black, but produce brown because most commercially available blue ...
Violet is the color of light at the short wavelength end of the visible spectrum. It is one of the seven colors that Isaac Newton labeled when dividing the spectrum of visible light in 1672. Violet light has a wavelength between approximately 380 and 435 nanometers. [2] The color's name is derived from the Viola genus of flowers.
Dark reddish purple. B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) The color Japanese violet or Sumire is shown at right. This is the color called "violet" in the traditional Japanese colors group, a group of colors in use since beginning in 660 CE in the form of various dyes that are used in designing kimono.
CIELCh uv ( L, C, h) (29, 45, 7°) Source. ISCC-NBS. ISCC–NBS descriptor. Dark red. B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) The color to the right is the color called puce in the ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955). Since this color has a hue code of 353, it is a slightly purplish red.
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.
Fuchsia ( / ˈfjuːʃə /, FEW-shə) is a vivid pinkish-purplish- red color, [1] named after the color of the flower of the fuchsia plant, which was named by a French botanist, Charles Plumier, after the 16th-century German botanist Leonhart Fuchs . The color fuchsia was introduced as the color of a new aniline dye called fuchsine, patented in ...
Mauve (/ ˈ m oʊ v / ⓘ, mohv; / ˈ m ɔː v / ⓘ, mawv) is a pale purple color named after the mallow flower (French: mauve). The first use of the word mauve as a color was in 1796–98 according to the Oxford English Dictionary, but its use seems to have been rare before 1859.
Color names with clashing definitions Color name X11 color W3C color Hex Red Green Blue Sample Sample Hex Red Green Blue Gray: #BEBEBE: 75%: 75%: 75% #808080: 50%: 50%: 50% Green #00FF00: 0%: 100%: 0% #008000: 0%: 50%: 0% Maroon: #B03060: 69%: 19%: 38% #800000: 50%: 0%: 0% Purple: #A020F0: 63%: 13%: 94% #800080: 50%: 0%: 50%
The color amaranth purple is displayed at right. This color is a representation of the color of purple amaranth flowers. The first recorded use of amaranth purple as a color name in English was in 1912.