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    Purple refers to colors between red and blue, closer to red, while violet refers to colors closer to blue. In optics, purple is a mixture of red, blue, and violet light, whereas violet is a single wavelength of light. Purple is associated with royalty historically because of an expensive purple dye, and today it can represent royalty, mystery, and femininity depending on context. The modern English word "purple" comes from the Greek word for the expensive dye produced from sea snails.

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    Purple refers to colors between red and blue, closer to red, while violet refers to colors closer to blue. In optics, purple is a mixture of red, blue, and violet light, whereas violet is a single wavelength of light. Purple is associated with royalty historically because of an expensive purple dye, and today it can represent royalty, mystery, and femininity depending on context. The modern English word "purple" comes from the Greek word for the expensive dye produced from sea snails.

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    Purple refers to colors between red and blue, closer to red, while violet refers to colors closer to blue. In optics, purple is a mixture of red, blue, and violet light, whereas violet is a single wavelength of light. Purple is associated with royalty historically because of an expensive purple dye, and today it can represent royalty, mystery, and femininity depending on context. The modern English word "purple" comes from the Greek word for the expensive dye produced from sea snails.

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    Purple refers to any of a variety of colors with hue between red and blue.

    [1][2]
    Purple is closely associated with violet. In optics, purple and violet refer to colors that look similar,
    but purples are mixtures of red light and blue or violet light,[3][4] whereas violets are spectral colors (of
    single wavelengths of light). In common usage, both refer to colors that are between red and blue
    in hue, with purples closer to red and violets closer to blue.[5][6] Similarly, in the traditional painters'
    color wheel, purple and violet are both placed between red and blue, with purple closer to red.
    Purple has long been associated with royalty, originally because Tyrian purple dye was extremely
    expensive in antiquity.[7] Purple was the color worn by Roman magistrates; it became the imperial
    color worn by the rulers of the Byzantine Empire and the Holy Roman Empire, and later by Roman
    Catholic bishops. Similarly in Japan, the color is traditionally associated with the emperor and
    aristocracy.[8]
    According to contemporary surveys in Europe and the United States, purple is the color most often
    associated with royalty, magic, mystery, and piety.[9][need quotation to verify] When combined with pink, it is
    associated with eroticism, femininity, and seduction.[10]

    Etymology and definitions


    The modern English word purple comes from the Old English purpul, which derives
    from Latin purpura, which, in turn, derives from the Greek πορφύρα (porphura),[11] the name of
    the Tyrian purple dye manufactured in classical antiquity from a mucus secreted by the spiny dye-
    murex snail.[1][12] The first recorded use of the word purple dates to the late 900s AD.[1]

    Relationship to violet

    Violet

        Color coordinates

    Hex triplet #7F00FF

    sRGBB  (r, g, b) (127, 0, 255)

    CMYKH   (c, m, y, k) (50, 100, 0, 0)

    HSV       (h, s, v) (270°, 100%, 100[13]%)

    Source HTML Color Chart @274


    B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

    H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

    The line of purples circled on the CIE chromaticity diagram. In optics, purple refers to points near and along the
    circled line, whereas violet refers to the bottom of the curved left edge.

    Purple is closely associated with violet. In common usage, both refer to colors that are between red
    and blue in hue, with purples closer to red and violets closer to blue.[5][6] Similarly, in the traditional
    painters' color wheel, purple and violet are both placed between red and blue, with purple is closer to
    red.
    In optics, violet is a spectral color: It refers to the color of any different single wavelength of light on
    the short wavelength end of the visible spectrum (between approximately 380 and 450 nanometers),
    [14]
     whereas purple is the color of various combinations of red, blue, and violet light,[15][16] some of which
    humans perceive as similar to violet.
    In humans, the L (red) cone in the eye is primarily sensitive to long wavelength light in the yellow-red
    region of the spectrum, but is also somewhat sensitive to the shorter wavelength violet light that
    primarily stimulates the S (blue) cone. As a result, when violet light strikes the eye, the S-cone is
    stimulated strongly and the L-cone is stimulated weakly. Accordingly, strong blue light mixed with
    weaker red light can mimic this pattern of stimulation, causing humans to perceive colors that the
    same hue as violet, but with lower saturation.[citation needed] Computer and television screens rely on this
    phenomenon. Because they use the RGB color model, they cannot produce violet light and instead
    substitute purple (a mixture red and blue light)

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