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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.
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.
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 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 native speakers of English. [2]
This lavender also closely matches the color given as lavender in a basic purple color chart.
This is a partial list of awareness ribbons. The meaning behind an awareness ribbon depends on its colors and pattern. Since many advocacy groups have adopted ribbons as symbols of support or awareness, ribbons, particularly those of a single color, some colors may refer to more than one cause.
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.
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.
Violet (web color) Color coordinates; Hex triplet: #EE82EE: sRGB B (r, g, b) (238, 130, 238) HSV (h, s, v) (300°, 45%, 93%) CIELCh uv (L, C, h) (70, 85, 308°) Source: X11 X11 color names: ISCC–NBS descriptor: Vivid purple: B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
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)