Shades of Purple
| Purple | |
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| Common connotations | |
| royalty, nobility, Lent, Easter, Mardi Gras | |
 Color coordinates |
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| Hex triplet | #800080 |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (128, 0, 128) |
| CMYKH (c, m, y, k) | (0, 100, 0, 50) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (300°, 100%, 50%) |
| Source | HTML |
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B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) |
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| Tyrian Purple | |
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Colour coordinates |
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| Hex triplet | #66023C |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (102, 2, 60) |
| CMYKH (c, m, y, k) | (0, 98, 41, 0) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (325°, 98%, 40%) |
| Source | Tyrian Purple |
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B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) |
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| Royal Purple | |
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Color coordinates |
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| Hex triplet | #7851A9 |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (120, 81, 169) |
| CMYKH (c, m, y, k) | (29, 52, 0, 34) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (267°, 52%, 66%) |
| Source | Crayola |
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B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) |
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| Red-Violet | |
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Color coordinates |
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| Hex triplet | #C71585 |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (199, 21, 133) |
| CMYKH (c, m, y, k) | (0, 89, 33, 0) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (322°, 89%, 78%) |
| Source | X11 |
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B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) |
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| Purple (HTML/CSS color) | |
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Color coordinates |
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| Hex triplet | #800080 |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (128, 0, 128) |
| CMYKH (c, m, y, k) | (66, 87, 0, 0) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (300°, 100%, 50.2%) |
| Source | HTML/CSS |
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B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) |
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| Purple (X11 color) | |
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Color coordinates |
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| Hex triplet | #A020F0 |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (160, 32, 240) |
| CMYKH (c, m, y, k) | (9, 94, 0, 0) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (276.92°, 86.67%, 94.12%) |
| Source | X11 |
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B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) |
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| Medium Purple | |
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Color coordinates |
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| Hex triplet | #9370DB |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (147, 112, 219) |
| CMYKH (c, m, y, k) | (56, 58, 0, 0) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (270°, 68%, 72%) |
| Source | X11 |
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B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) |
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| Purple (Munsell) | |
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Color coordinates |
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| Hex triplet | #9F00C5 |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (159, 0, 197) |
| CMYKH (c, m, y, k) | (19, 100, 0, 23) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (288°, 100%, 77%) |
| Source | Munsell Color Wheel |
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B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) |
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| Thistle | |
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Color coordinates |
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| Hex triplet | #D8BFD8 |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (216, 191, 216) |
| CMYKH (c, m, y, k) | (18, 27, 2, 1) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (300°, 12%, 85%) |
| Source | X11 |
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B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) |
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| 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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There are numerous variations of the color purple, a sampling of which are shown below.
In common English usage, purple is a range of hues of color occurring between red and blue.
In color theory, purple colors are any 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 first recorded use of purple as a color name in English was in 975 AD.
See also under Purple#In art and history the section "In prehistory and the ancient world: Tyrian purple"
The actual color of Tyrian purple, the original color purple from which the name purple is derived, is the color of a dye extracted from a mollusk found on the shores of the city of Tyre in ancient Phoenicia (present day Lebanon) that in classical antiquity became a symbol of royalty because only the very wealthy could afford it. Therefore, Tyrian purple was also called imperial purple.
Tyrian purple may have been discovered as early as the time of the Minoan civilization. Alexander the Great (when giving imperial audiences as the Emperor of the Macedonian Empire), the emperor of the Seleucid Empire, and the kings of Ptolemaic Egypt all wore Tyrian purple. The imperial robes of Roman emperors were Tyrian purple trimmed in metallic gold thread. The badge of office of a Roman Senator was a stripe of Tyrian purple on their white toga. Tyrian purple was continued in use by the emperors of the Eastern Roman Empire until its final collapse in 1453.
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