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Although pure spectrum violet is outside the color gamut of the RGB color space, the three colors displayed below are rough approximations of the range of colors of actual spectral violet, although the accuracy of the approximation can vary depending on the individual's color vision, and on the color rendition of one's computer monitor.
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.
The line of purples circled on the CIE chromaticity diagram. The bottom left of the curved edge is violet. Points near and along the circled edge are purple. The word violet as a color name derives from the Middle English and Old French violete, in turn from the Latin viola, the name of the violet flower.
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.
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.
CIELCh uv ( L, C, h) (30, 68, 308°) Source. HTML color names. 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.
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 Munsell color system, showing: a circle of hues at value 5 chroma 6; the neutral values from 0 to 10; and the chromas of purple-blue (5PB) at value 5. In colorimetry, the Munsell color system is a color space that specifies colors based on three properties of color: hue (basic color), value , and chroma (color intensity
Periwinkle (color) Persian blue; Persian indigo; Pink; Plum (color) Purple; Purpure