Shades of purple

This article is about shades of the color. For the M2M album, see Shades of Purple.

Purple
 
Common connotations
royalty, nobility, Lent, Easter, Mardi Gras, LGBTQ, magic, Spirit Day
About these coordinates     Color coordinates
Hex triplet#800080
sRGBB (r, g, b)(128, 0, 128)
HSV (h, s, v)(300°, 100%, 50%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)(30, 68, 308°)
SourceHTML
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

There are numerous variations of the color purple, a sampling of which is shown below.

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] Many native speakers of English in the United States refer to the blue-dominated spectral color beyond blue as purple, but the same color is referred to as violet by many native English speakers in the United Kingdom.[3][4] The full range of colors between red and blue is referred to by the term purple in some British authoritative texts,[3] whereas the same range of colors is referred to by the term violet in some other texts.[5] The confusion about the range of meanings of the terms violet and purple is even larger when including other languages and historical texts.[6] Since this Wikipedia page contains contributions from authors from different countries and different native languages, this Wikipedia page is likely not to be consistent in the use of the color terms purple and violet.

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.[7][8]

The first recorded use of purple as a color name in English was in 975 AD.[9]

  1. ^ Mish, Frederic C., Editor in Chief Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S.A.:1984--Merriam-Webster p. 957
  2. ^ Fehrman, K.R.; Fehrman, C. (2004). Color - the secret influence. Upper Saddle River: Pearson Education.
  3. ^ a b Matschi, M. (2005). "Color terms in English: Onomasiological and Semasiological aspects". Onomasiology Online. 5: 56–139.
  4. ^ Spence, N. (1989). "The Linguistic Field of Colour Terms in French". Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie. 105 (5–6): 472–497. doi:10.1515/zrph.1989.105.5-6.472. S2CID 161984015.
  5. ^ Cooper, A.C.; McLaren, K. (1973). "The ANLAB colour system and the dyer's variables of "shade" and strength". J. Soc. Dyers Colorists. 89 (2): 41–45. doi:10.1111/j.1478-4408.1973.tb03128.x.
  6. ^ Tager, A.; Kirchner, E.; Fedorovskaya, E. (2021). "Computational evidence of first extensive usage of violet in the 1860s". Color Research & Application. 46 (5): 961–977. doi:10.1002/col.22638. S2CID 233671776.
  7. ^ Charles A. Poynton (2003). Digital video and HDTV. Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN 1-55860-792-7.
  8. ^ John Dakin and Robert G. W. Brown (2006). Handbook of Optoelectronics. CRC Press. ISBN 0-7503-0646-7.
  9. ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill p. 202