![]() Pizzaz is used to describe vitality, we have fandango, a dance from Spain and Portugal, Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday in French), the famous carnival in masks, and for the final – a brownish tone called taupe what means a mole in French. Blush is a new name for the color which was before called cranberry purple. Let’s conclude with last set of five purple colors. By the way – purpureus is purple in Old German. Ready for some more … purple? Next set of names is pretty descriptive as is. Again, we’ll skip grapes and plums, to stay within our limit of 50 tones of purple. We’ll continue our journey through the lands of purples, inspired by nature, in the woods – with five kinds of berries. Jimmy Hendrix was one of the biggest fans.Īnother set of purples comes from the garden, this time, we’ll meet few shades of eggplant (aubergine in French) and sweet potato (also known as yam or ube). This color is fluorescent magenta and blue pigments and it was very much in favor in the hippie movement. We can add the fact phlox, named after the flower is often called psychedelic purple. We’ll limit with only ten different shades with fuchsia and orchids being dominant representatives.Īll the names with the word violet are included in the list of violet shades and you can find magenta and additional shade of fuchsia among pinks. The Eastern part survived longer, so we can’t be surprised to have at least three variations of basically the same color named after Byzantium.Īs we could easily add another set of purple tones named after places (magenta, for instance) the same is true with flowers as well. Important people in Old Rome adored this color and we can find the shades named after locations in both parts of the Roman Empire. In the next set, we can see the association with precious stones and the last color is the color of prestigious US military decoration. Considering the fact some shades are used for many centuries and the color in real life was made from pigments with varying quality, color becoming paler with exposure to the sun and other elements, this is only logic to expect. There are of course other shades, tones, hues and tints with names suggesting its expense and prestige:Ħ6023C Tyrian Purple (also Imperial Purple)ĭon’t worry if you find another color with the same name and different hex code, because standards are not unique. Being the color of kings and emperors, it is sometimes called imperial purple. Because the pigment was produced in ancient city Tyre (today it is part of Lebanon), the dye was sometimes called Tyrian purple. The pigment for purple dye was made from sort of sea snail and for one piece of colored cloth they needed tens or hundreds of thousands of snails, there was a lot of manual work and the procedure was very time-consuming, so you can imagine it was expensive (the price was approximately the same as the price of silver). The purple color is relatively rare in nature and it was for centuries reserved for nobility only. ![]() And by the way, Veronica (old name for another shade) or purple (X11) ( a new name for the same shade – this standard is constructed for web browsers) is sometimes called medium purple too! This color is exactly on the halfway between red and blue and is by artists considered as pure purple, but in the more accurate three-dimensional Munsell’s system we have a different color with the same name. We have the color with simple name purple, there is medium purple and electric purple (with an old name true purple). We can already notice some vagueness in the nomenclature. Our mission is to present 50 different shades of purple with examples and hex codes which can be used in every graphic program, so you can not only easily find and use the right purple shade, but name it (and maybe even find a bit of interesting info about it) as well. It has its own space in the spectra (around 750 THz) and purple is simply a mix of two other real colors (red and blue). Anyways, in general, we expect purple to have a higher degree of red and violet more blue in the mix.īecause there are so many different hues of purple out there, we’ll explore some of them in detail and here is a quick list: Or: they use the same name for different colors, especially if we are dealing with folks with different cultural backgrounds, for instance with Americans and Europeans. If we explore a bit, we quickly find many people use words purple and violet for the same color. If we further complicate with an addition of white or black, life becomes really colorful! We can add a bit of yellow as well, so all possible brownish tones are candidates too. While every mix of blue and red can qualify, we can, at least, say blue and red are mandatory components. ![]() There are three colors placed between red and blue with purple in the middle.Ī unique definition of purple color does not exist. ![]()
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