Mauve
| Mauve (mallow) | |
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 Color coordinates |
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| Hex triplet | #E0B0FF |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (224, 176, 255) |
| CMYKH (c, m, y, k) | (12, 31, 0, 0) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (276°, 31%, 100%) |
| Source | Maerz and Paul |
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B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) |
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| Mauve (Crayola C.P.) | |
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Color coordinates |
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| Hex triplet | #E285FF |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (226, 133, 255) |
| CMYKH (c, m, y, k) | (11, 48, 0, 0) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (286°, 48%, 100%) |
| Source | Crayola C.P. |
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B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) |
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| Mauve (Pourpre.com) | |
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Color coordinates |
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| Hex triplet | #D473D4 |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (212, 115, 212) |
| CMYKH (c, m, y, k) | (0, 46, 0, 17) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (300°, 46%, 83%) |
| Source | Pourpre.com |
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B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) |
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| Opera mauve | |
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Color coordinates |
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| Hex triplet | #B784A7 |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (183, 132, 167) |
| CMYKH (c, m, y, k) | (12, 27, 0, 2) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (276°, 20%, 62%) |
| Source | ISCC-NBS |
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B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) |
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| Mauve taupe | |
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Color coordinates |
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| Hex triplet | #915F6D |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (145, 95, 109) |
| CMYKH (c, m, y, k) | (0, 34, 25, 43) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (285°, 37%, 54%) |
| Source | ISCC-NBS |
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B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) |
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| Old mauve | |
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Color coordinates |
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| Hex triplet | #673147 |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (103, 49, 71) |
| CMYKH (c, m, y, k) | (0, 52, 31, 60) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (336°, 52%, 40%) |
| Source | ISCC NBS |
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B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) |
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Mauve (
i/ˈmoʊv/, mohv) is a pale purple color named after the mallow flower (French: mauve). The first use of the word mauve as a color was in 1796–98 according to the Oxford English Dictionary, but its use seems to have been rare before 1859. Another name for the color is mallow, with the first recorded use of mallow as a color name in English in 1611.
Mauve contains more grey and more blue than a pale tint of magenta. Many pale wildflowers called "blue" are actually mauve. Mauve is also sometimes described as pale violet.
The synthetic dye mauve was first so named in 1859. Chemist William Henry Perkin, then eighteen, was attempting to create a cure for Malaria in 1856. An unexpected residue caught his eye, which turned out to be the first aniline dye – specifically, Perkin's mauve or mauveine, sometimes called aniline purple, but this new dye was originally called Tyrian Purple and was only called mauve after it was marketed in 1859. Earlier references to a mauve dye in 1856–58 referred to a color produced using the semi-synthetic dye murexide or a mixture of natural dyes. Perkin was so successful in marketing his discovery to the dye industry that his biography by Simon Garfield is simply entitled Mauve. However, as it faded easily, the success of mauve dye was short-lived and it was replaced by other synthetic dyes by 1873. As the memory of the original dye soon receded, the contemporary understanding of mauve is as a lighter, less-saturated color than it was originally known.
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