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  2. Violet (color) - Wikipedia

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    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. [3] [4]

  3. Shades of red - Wikipedia

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    Red (RGB), RGB red, or electric red [citation needed] (as opposed to pigment red, shown below) is the brightest possible red that can be reproduced on a computer monitor. This color is an approximation of an orangish red spectral color .

  4. Shades of blue - Wikipedia

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    Bluebonnet is a bright shade of blue with a slight violet tinge. ... It has a hex code of 0080FF. [26] ISCC–NBS descriptor: Vivid blue: B: Normalized to ...

  5. Shades of pink - Wikipedia

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    Displayed here is the web color light pink.The name of the web color is written as "lightpink" (no space) in HTML for computer display. Although this color is called "light pink", as can be ascertained by inspecting its hex code, it is actually a slightly deeper, not a lighter, tint of pink than the color pink itself.

  6. Palatinate (colour) - Wikipedia

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    Accounts of its origin agree that the choice of palatinate purple as Durham University's colour relates to the key role played by William Van Mildert, the Bishop of Durham, in the foundation of the university (purple being the episcopal colour), as well as to the unique historical status of Durham County as a Palatinate, under the civil authority of the bishop, until Van Mildert's death in 1836.

  7. Shades of yellow - Wikipedia

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    Red, green and blue lights, representing the three basic additive primary colors of the RGB color system, red, green, and blue.Pure yellow light is composed of equal amount of red and green light.

  8. Impossible color - Wikipedia

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    For example, to see "stygian blue": staring at bright yellow causes a dark blue afterimage, then on looking at black, the blue is seen as blue against the black, also as dark as the black. The color is not possible to achieve through normal vision, because the lack of incident light (in the black) prevents saturation of the blue/yellow ...

  9. Azure (color) - Wikipedia

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    According to the logic of the RGB color wheel, indigo colors are those colors with hue codes between 255 and 225 (degrees), azure colors are those colors with hue codes between 195 and 225, and cyan colors are those colors with hue codes between 165 and 195. Another way of describing it could be that cyan is a mixture of blue and green light ...