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Purple is a general term for the range of shades of color
Color

Color or colour is the visual perception property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, yellow, blue and others....
 occurring between red
Red

Red is any of a number of similar colors evoked by light consisting predominantly of the longest wavelengths of light discernible by the human eye, in the wavelength range of roughly 625?740 Nanometer....
 and blue
Blue

Blue is a colour, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 440?490 Nanometre....
. It occurs (in both subtractive pigment and additive light combinations) by mixing the primary color
Primary color

Primary colors are sets of colors that can be combined to make a useful range of colors. For human applications, three are often used; for additive combination of colors, as in overlapping projected lights or in cathode ray tube displays, the primary colors normally used are red, green, and blue....
s red and blue in varying proportions, with possibly a very small quantity of the third primary color (green for light or yellow for pigment). There is a disagreement over exactly which shades can be described as purple, some people preferring more precise terms such as magenta
Magenta

Magenta is a purplish pink color evoked by lights with less power in yellowish-green wavelengths than in blue and red wavelengths . In light experiments, magenta can be produced by removing the lime-green wavelengths from white light....
 or heliotrope
Heliotrope (color)

Heliotrope is a pink-purple tint that is a representation of the color of the Heliotropium.Another name for this color is vivid Lavender #Vivid lavender u....
 for particular shades.






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Purple is a general term for the range of shades of color
Color

Color or colour is the visual perception property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, yellow, blue and others....
 occurring between red
Red

Red is any of a number of similar colors evoked by light consisting predominantly of the longest wavelengths of light discernible by the human eye, in the wavelength range of roughly 625?740 Nanometer....
 and blue
Blue

Blue is a colour, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 440?490 Nanometre....
. It occurs (in both subtractive pigment and additive light combinations) by mixing the primary color
Primary color

Primary colors are sets of colors that can be combined to make a useful range of colors. For human applications, three are often used; for additive combination of colors, as in overlapping projected lights or in cathode ray tube displays, the primary colors normally used are red, green, and blue....
s red and blue in varying proportions, with possibly a very small quantity of the third primary color (green for light or yellow for pigment). There is a disagreement over exactly which shades can be described as purple, some people preferring more precise terms such as magenta
Magenta

Magenta is a purplish pink color evoked by lights with less power in yellowish-green wavelengths than in blue and red wavelengths . In light experiments, magenta can be produced by removing the lime-green wavelengths from white light....
 or heliotrope
Heliotrope (color)

Heliotrope is a pink-purple tint that is a representation of the color of the Heliotropium.Another name for this color is vivid Lavender #Vivid lavender u....
 for particular shades. A difference in retina
Retina

The vertebrate retina is a light sensitive tissue lining the inner surface of the eye. The optics of the eye create an image of the visual world on the retina, which serves much the same function as the film in a camera....
l sensitivity to red and blue light between individuals can cause further disagreement.

In color theory
Color theory

In the visual arts, color theory is a body of practical guidance to color mixing and the visual impact of specific color combinations. Although color theory principles first appear in the writings of Leone Battista Alberti and the notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci , a tradition of "colory theory" begins in the 18th century, initially within a...
, a 'purple' is defined as any non-spectral color between violet
Violet (color)

As the name of a color, violet is used in two senses: first, referring to the color of light at the short-wavelength end of the optical spectrum, approximately 380?420 nanometre when indigo is recognized, or more commonly 380?450 nm ....
 and red
Red

Red is any of a number of similar colors evoked by light consisting predominantly of the longest wavelengths of light discernible by the human eye, in the wavelength range of roughly 625?740 Nanometer....
. The spectral color
Spectral color

A spectral color is a color that is evoked by a single wavelength of light in the visible spectrum, or by a relatively narrow band of wavelengths....
 violet
Violet (color)

As the name of a color, violet is used in two senses: first, referring to the color of light at the short-wavelength end of the optical spectrum, approximately 380?420 nanometre when indigo is recognized, or more commonly 380?450 nm ....
 is a purple.

In art
Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting....
, purple is the color on the color wheel between magenta
Magenta

Magenta is a purplish pink color evoked by lights with less power in yellowish-green wavelengths than in blue and red wavelengths . In light experiments, magenta can be produced by removing the lime-green wavelengths from white light....
 and violet
Violet (color)

As the name of a color, violet is used in two senses: first, referring to the color of light at the short-wavelength end of the optical spectrum, approximately 380?420 nanometre when indigo is recognized, or more commonly 380?450 nm ....
 and its tint
Tint

In color theory, a tint is the mixture of a color with white.Tint may also refer to:* Tint control, an adjustment to correct for phase error in the picture color on a NTSC television set...
s and shade
Shade

Shade is the blocking of sunlight by any object, and also the shadow created by that object. Shade also consists of the colors grey, black,white, etc....
s. This color, electric purple, is shown below.

In human color psychology, purple is associated with royalty, regality, and nobility (stemming from antiquity where Tyrian Purple
Tyrian purple

Tyrian purple , also known as royal purple, imperial purple or imperial dye, is a purple-red dye which was first produced by the ancient Phoenicians in the city of Tyre, Lebanon....
 was only affordable to the elites).

Etymology and definitions

Murex Sp
The word 'purple' comes from the Old English word purpul which originates from the Latin
Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
 purpura. This in turn is derived from the Koine Greek
Koine Greek

Koine Greek is the popular form of Greek which emerged in post-Classical antiquity . Other names are Alexandrian, Hellenistic, Common, or New Testament Greek....
  (porphyra), name of the dye
Dye

A dye can generally be described as a colored substance that has an Chemical affinity to the Wiktionary:substrate to which it is being applied....
 manufactured in Classical antiquity
Classical antiquity

Classical antiquity is a broad term for a long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome....
 from the mucus-secretion of the hypobranchial gland of a marine snail
Snail

The word snail is a common name for almost all members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled animal shells in the adult stage. When the word snail is used in a general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails....
 known as the Murex brandaris or the spiny dye-murex.

The first recorded use of the word 'purple' in English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 was in the year AD 975.

Purple versus violet


Violet is a spectral color
Spectral color

A spectral color is a color that is evoked by a single wavelength of light in the visible spectrum, or by a relatively narrow band of wavelengths....
 (approximately 380-420 nm), of a shorter wavelength than blue, while purple is a combination of red and blue or violet
Violet (color)

As the name of a color, violet is used in two senses: first, referring to the color of light at the short-wavelength end of the optical spectrum, approximately 380?420 nanometre when indigo is recognized, or more commonly 380?450 nm ....
 light. The purples are colors that are not spectral color
Spectral color

A spectral color is a color that is evoked by a single wavelength of light in the visible spectrum, or by a relatively narrow band of wavelengths....
s – purples are extra-spectral colors. In fact, purple was not present on Newton's color wheel (which went directly from violet to red), though it is on modern ones, between red and violet. There is no such thing as the "wavelength of purple light"; it only exists as a combination.
Ciexy1931
On the CIE xy chromaticity diagram
CIE 1931 color space

In the study of the perception of color, one of the first mathematically defined color spaces was the CIE 1931 XYZ color space , created by the International Commission on Illumination in 1931....
, violet is on the curved edge in the lower left, while purples are the straight line connecting the extreme colors red and violet; this line is known as the line of purples, or the purple line.

One interesting psychophysical
Psychophysics

Psychophysics is a subdiscipline of psychology dealing with the relationship between physical stimulus and their subjectivity correlates, or percepts....
 feature of the two colors that can be used to separate them is their appearance with increase of light intensity
Light intensity

Several measures of light are commonly known as intensity:*Radiant intensity, a radiometric quantity measured in watts per steradian ...
. Violet, as light intensity increases, appears to take on a far more blue hue as a result of what is known as the Bezold-Brücke shift
Bezold-Brücke shift

The Bezold-Br?cke shift is a change in hue perception as intensity changes. As intensity increases, spectral colors shift more towards blue or yellow ....
. The same increase in blueness is not noted in purples.

Violet cannot be reproduced by a Red-Green-Blue (RGB) color system, and must be simulated by a mixture of red and blue (purple). The shade of violet simulated in the color box above is just over halfway between magenta
Magenta

Magenta is a purplish pink color evoked by lights with less power in yellowish-green wavelengths than in blue and red wavelengths . In light experiments, magenta can be produced by removing the lime-green wavelengths from white light....
 and blue
Blue

Blue is a colour, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 440?490 Nanometre....
 on the color wheel
Color wheel

A color wheel or color circle is an organization of color hues around a circle, showing relationships between colors considered to be primary colors, secondary colors, complementary colors, etc....
.

Properties

On a chromaticity diagram, the straight line connecting the extreme spectral color
Color

Color or colour is the visual perception property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, yellow, blue and others....
s (red
Red

Red is any of a number of similar colors evoked by light consisting predominantly of the longest wavelengths of light discernible by the human eye, in the wavelength range of roughly 625?740 Nanometer....
 and violet
Violet (color)

As the name of a color, violet is used in two senses: first, referring to the color of light at the short-wavelength end of the optical spectrum, approximately 380?420 nanometre when indigo is recognized, or more commonly 380?450 nm ....
) is known as the 'line of purples' (or 'purple boundary'); it represents one limit of human
Human

A human being, also human or man, is a member of a species of bipedalism primates in the family Hominidae . Mitochondrial DNA evidence indicates that modern humans originated in east Africa about 200,000 years ago....
 color perception
Color vision

Color vision is the capacity of an organism or machine to distinguish objects based on the wavelengths of the light they reflect or emit. The nervous system derives color by comparing the responses to light from the several types of Cone cell in the eye....
. The color magenta
Magenta

Magenta is a purplish pink color evoked by lights with less power in yellowish-green wavelengths than in blue and red wavelengths . In light experiments, magenta can be produced by removing the lime-green wavelengths from white light....
 used in the CMYK printing
Printing

Printing is a process for reproducing text and image, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. It is often carried out as a large-scale industrial process, and is an essential part of publishing and transaction printing....
 process is on the line of purples, but most people associate the term "purple" with a somewhat bluer shade. Some common confusion exists concerning the color name
Color name

A color name is a noun or noun phrase that refers to a specific color. The color name may refer to human perception of that color , or to an underlying physical property ....
s "purple" and "violet". Purple is a mixture of red and blue light, whereas violet is a spectral color.

Historical development of purple


Tyrian purple: Classical antiquity


Justinian
The actual color of Tyrian purple, the original color purple from which the name purple is derived, is the color of a dye made from a mollusk
Haustellum brandaris

Haustellum brandaris, also known as Bolinus brandaris or Murex brandaris, and commonly known as the purple dye murex or the spiny dye-murex is a species of medium-sized predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or the rock snails....
 that in classical antiquity
Classical antiquity

Classical antiquity is a broad term for a long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome....
 became a symbol of royalty
Royal family

A royal family is the extended family of a king or queen regnant. The term "imperial family" more appropriately describes the extended family of an emperor or empress regnant, while the terms "ducal family", "grand ducal family" or "princely family" are more appropriate in reference to the relatives of a reigning duke, grand duke, or prince....
 because only the very wealthy could afford it. Therefore, Tyrian purple is also called imperial purple.

Tyrian purple may have been discovered as early as the time of the Minoan civilization
Minoan civilization

The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age civilization which arose on the island of Crete. The Minoan culture flourished from approximately 27th century BC to 1450 BC; afterwards, Mycenaean Greece culture became dominant at Minoan sites in Crete....
. Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great , also known as Alexander III of Macedon was an ancient Greeks King of Macedon . He was one of the most successful military commanders of all time and is presumed undefeated in battle....
 (when giving imperial audiences as the emperor
List of kings of Macedon

Macedon was an ancient kingdom centered around the present-day region of Macedonia in northern Greece, inhabited by the Ancient Macedonians. At various points in its history the kingdom proper encompassed parts of the present-day Republic of Macedonia, Albania, Bulgaria and Turkish Thrace....
 of the Macedonian Empire
Macedon

Macedon or Macedonia was the name of a monarchy centred in the northernmost part of ancient Greece. The homeland of the ancient Macedonians, it was bordered by the kingdom of Epirus to the west and the region of Thrace to the east....
), the emperors of the Seleucid Empire
Seleucid Empire

The Seleucid Empire /s?'lus?d/ was a Hellenistic empire, i.e. a successor state of Alexander the Great's empire. The Seleucid Empire was centered in the near East and at the height of its power included central Anatolia, the Levant, Mesopotamia, Persia, today's Turkmenistan, Pamir Mountains and parts of Pakistan....
, and the kings
Ptolemaic dynasty

The Ptolemaic dynasty was a Hellenistic Macedonian royal family which ruled the Ptolemaic Empire in Egypt for nearly 300 years, from 305 BC to 30 BC....
 of Ptolemaic Egypt
Ptolemaic Egypt

Ptolemaic Egypt began when Ptolemy I Soter declared himself Pharaoh of Egypt in 305 BC and ended with the death of queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt and the Aegyptus in 30 BC....
 wore Tyrian purple. The imperial robes of Roman emperor
Roman Emperor

The Roman Emperor was the ruler of the Roman Empire during the imperial period . The Romans had no single term for the office: Latin language titles such as imperator , Augustus , Caesar and princeps were all associated with it....
s were Tyrian purple trimmed in metallic gold
Gold (color)

Gold, also called golden, is an orange -yellow color which is a representation of the color of the chemical element gold. Metallic gold, such as in paint, is often called goldtone or gold-tone....
 thread. The badge of office of a Roman Senator
Roman Senate

The Senate of the Roman Republic was a political institution in the ancient Roman Republic. According to the Greek historian Polybius, our principal source on the Constitution of the Roman Republic, the Roman Senate was the predominant branch of government....
 was a stripe of Tyrian purple on their white toga
Toga

The toga, a distinctive garment of Ancient Rome, was a cloth of perhaps twenty feet in length which was wrapped around the body and generally was worn over a tunic....
. Tyrian purple was continued in use by the emperors of the Eastern Roman Empire
Byzantine Empire

Byzantine Empire and Eastern Roman Empire are conventional names used to describe the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered on its capital of Constantinople....
 until its final collapse
Fall of Constantinople

The Fall of Constantinople was a siege in which the Ottoman Empire under the command of Sultan Mehmed II attempted to capture the capital of the Byzantine Empire, Constantinople which was defended by the army of Emperor Constantine XI....
 in 1453.

Han purple: Ancient China


Han purple is a type of artificial pigment
Pigment

A pigment is a material that changes the color of light it Reflection as the result of selective color absorption. This physical process differs from fluorescence, phosphorescence, and other forms of luminescence, in which the material itself emits light....
 found in China
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
 between 500 BC and AD 220. It was used in the decoration of the Xian Terracotta Army
Terracotta Army

The Terracotta Army are the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shi Huang the First Emperor of China. The terracotta figures, dating from 210 BC, were discovered in 1974 by several local farmers near Xi'an, Shanxi province, China near the Mausouleum of the First Qin Emperor....
.

Royal purple: Medieval Europe


This shade of purple is bluer than the ancient Tyrian purple.

In medieval Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
, blue
Blue

Blue is a colour, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 440?490 Nanometre....
 dyes were rare and expensive, so only the most wealthy or the aristocracy
Aristocracy

Aristocracy is a form of government, in which a few of the most prominent citizens rule. This may be a hereditary elite, or it may be by a system of cooption where a council of prominent citizens add leading soldiers, merchants, land owners, priests, and lawyers to their number....
 could afford to wear them. (The working class
Working class

Working class is a term used in academic sociology and in ordinary conversation to describe, depending on context and speaker, those employed in specific fields or types of work....
 wore mainly green
Green

Green is a color, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 520?570-Nanometre....
 and brown
Brown

Brown, when used as a general term, is a color that is a dark yellow, orange , or red, of low luminance relative to lighter or white colored objects....
.) Because of this (and also because Tyrian purple had gone out of use in western Europe
Western Europe

Western Europe refers to the countries in the western most half of Europe. This concept has had different meanings, political and cultural as well as geographical issues have influenced the area....
 after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire
Western Roman Empire

The Western Roman Empire refers to the western half of the Roman Empire, from its division by Diocletian in 285; the other half of the Roman Empire was the Eastern Roman Empire, today widely known as the Byzantine Empire....
 in AD 476), Europeans' idea of purple shifted towards this more bluish purple known as royal purple because of its similarity to the royal blue
Royal blue

Royal blue describes both a bright shade and a dark range of blue. It is said to have been invented by millers in Rode, Somerset, a consortium of which won a competition to make a dress for Queen Charlotte....
 worn by the aristocracy. This was the shade of purple worn by kings in medieval Europe
Middle Ages

File:Karl 1 mit papst gelasius gregor1 sacramentar v karl d kahlen.jpgThe Middle Ages of European history are a period in history which lasted for roughly a millennium, commonly dated from the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century to the beginning of the Early Modern Period in the 16th century, marked by the division of Western Christi...
.

Artists pigment purple (red-violet): 1930s


'Royal purple' (shown above) or the dark violet color known as vulgar purple is the common layman's idea of purple, but professional artist
Artist

The definition of an artist is wide-ranging and covers a broad spectrum of activities to do with creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art....
s, following Munsell color system
Munsell color system

In colorimetry, the Munsell color system is a color space that specifies colors based on three color dimensions: hue, value , and chroma . It was created by Professor Albert Henry Munsell in the first decade of the 20th century....
 (introduced in 1905 and widely accepted by 1930), regard purple as being synonymous with the red-violet
Red-violet

Red-violet is the name that, depending on the context, applies to one or another type of Purple. In this article we shall adhere?unless otherwise indicated?to the web color standard, which places the hue of red-violet at a certain point between the hues of magenta and Red ....
 color shown at right, in order to clearly distinguish purple from violet
Violet (color)

As the name of a color, violet is used in two senses: first, referring to the color of light at the short-wavelength end of the optical spectrum, approximately 380?420 nanometre when indigo is recognized, or more commonly 380?450 nm ....
 and thus have access to a larger palette of colors. This red-violet color, called artist's purple by artists, is the pigment color that would be on a pigment color color wheel
Color wheel

A color wheel or color circle is an organization of color hues around a circle, showing relationships between colors considered to be primary colors, secondary colors, complementary colors, etc....
 between pigment violet
Violet (color)

As the name of a color, violet is used in two senses: first, referring to the color of light at the short-wavelength end of the optical spectrum, approximately 380?420 nanometre when indigo is recognized, or more commonly 380?450 nm ....
 and pigment (process) magenta
Magenta

Magenta is a purplish pink color evoked by lights with less power in yellowish-green wavelengths than in blue and red wavelengths . In light experiments, magenta can be produced by removing the lime-green wavelengths from white light....
. In the Munsell color system, this color at the maximum chroma of 12 is called Red-Purple.

Artists pigments and colored pencil
Pencil

A pencil is a writing or drawing instrument consisting of a thin stick of pigment and clay, usually encased in a thin wood cylinder, though paper and plastic sheaths are also used....
s labeled as purple are colored the red-violet color shown at right.

Electric purple: 2000s


This color, electric purple, is precisely halfway between violet
Violet (color)

As the name of a color, violet is used in two senses: first, referring to the color of light at the short-wavelength end of the optical spectrum, approximately 380?420 nanometre when indigo is recognized, or more commonly 380?450 nm ....
 and magenta
Magenta

Magenta is a purplish pink color evoked by lights with less power in yellowish-green wavelengths than in blue and red wavelengths . In light experiments, magenta can be produced by removing the lime-green wavelengths from white light....
 and thus fits the artistic definition of purple.

Using additive colors such as those on computer screens, it is possible to create a much brighter purple than with pigments where the mixing subtracts frequencies from the component primary colors. The equivalent color on a computer to the pigment color red-violet shown above would be this electric purple, i.e. the much brighter purple you can see reproduced on the screen of an electronic
Electronics

Electronics refers to the flow of charge through nonmetal electrical conductor , whereas electrical refers to the flow of charge through metal electrical conductor....
 computer
Computer

A computer is a machine that manipulates Data according to a list of Code .The first devices that resemble modern computers date to the mid-20th century , although the computer concept and various machines similar to computers existed earlier....
. This color is pure purple conceived as computer art
Computer art

Computer art is any art in which computers played a role in production or display of the artwork. Such art can be an image, sound, animation, video, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, videogame, web site, algorithm, performance or gallery installation....
ists conceive it, as the pure chroma
Chroma

Chroma, the Greek word for color, may refer to:* The difference from gray at a given hue and lightness in the Munsell color system#Chroma* The perceived colorfulness in proportion to the brightness of a reference white patch....
 on the computer screen color wheel halfway between electric violet and electric magenta. Thus, electric purple is the purest and brightest purple that it is possible to display on a computer screen.

Computer web color purples


Purple (HTML/CSS color)


This purple used in HTML
HTML

HTML, an Acronym and initialism of HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for Web pages. It provides a means to describe the structure of text-based information in a document?by denoting certain text as links, headings, paragraphs, lists, and so on?and to supplement that text with interactive forms, embedded '...
 and CSS
Cascading Style Sheets

Cascading Style Sheets is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but the language can be applied to any kind of XML document, including Scalable Vector Graphics and XUL....
 actually is deeper and has a more reddish hue (#800080) than the X11 color
X11 color names

In computing, on the X Window System, X11 color names are represented in a simple text file, which maps certain strings to RGB color values. It is shipped with every "X" installation, hence the name, and is usually located in <X11root>/lib/X11/rgb.txt....
 purple shown below as purple (X11 color) (#A020F0), which is bluer and brighter.

This color may be called HTML/CSS purple.

Purple (X11 color)


At right is displayed the color purple, as defined in the X11 color
X11 color names

In computing, on the X Window System, X11 color names are represented in a simple text file, which maps certain strings to RGB color values. It is shipped with every "X" installation, hence the name, and is usually located in <X11root>/lib/X11/rgb.txt....
, which is a lot brighter and bluer than the HTML
HTML

HTML, an Acronym and initialism of HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for Web pages. It provides a means to describe the structure of text-based information in a document?by denoting certain text as links, headings, paragraphs, lists, and so on?and to supplement that text with interactive forms, embedded '...
 purple shown above.

See the chart Color names that clash between X11 and HTML/CSS
X11 color names

In computing, on the X Window System, X11 color names are represented in a simple text file, which maps certain strings to RGB color values. It is shipped with every "X" installation, hence the name, and is usually located in <X11root>/lib/X11/rgb.txt....
 in the X11 color names article to see those colors which are different in HTML and X11.

This color can be called X11 purple.

Medium purple (X11)


Displayed at right is the web color medium purple.

This color is a medium shade of the bright X11 purple shown above.

Additional variations of purple


Orchid

Labiata


The color orchid is a light shade of purple. The name 'orchid' originates from the flowers of some species of the vast orchid flower
Orchidaceae

Orchidaceae is the largest Family of the flowering plants . Its name is derived from the genus Orchis.The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew list 880 genus and nearly 22,000 accepted species, but the exact number is unknown because of taxonomic disputes....
 family, such as Laelia furfuracea and Ascocentrum pusillum, which have petals of this color.

Heliotrope

Heliotropium Arborescens1


The color heliotrope is a brilliant shade of purple.

Heliotrope
Heliotrope (color)

Heliotrope is a pink-purple tint that is a representation of the color of the Heliotropium.Another name for this color is vivid Lavender #Vivid lavender u....
 is a pink
Pink

Pink is a pale red color; the use of the word for the color was first recorded in the late 17th century, describing the flowers of Dianthus, flowering plants in the genus Dianthus. Pink itself is a combination of red and white....
-purple tint
Tint

In color theory, a tint is the mixture of a color with white.Tint may also refer to:* Tint control, an adjustment to correct for phase error in the picture color on a NTSC television set...
 that is a representation of the color
Color

Color or colour is the visual perception property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, yellow, blue and others....
 of the heliotrope flower
Heliotropium

The heliotropes is a genus of plants in the family Boraginaceae with 250 to 300 species.The name "heliotrope" derives from the fact that these plants turn their leaves to the sun....
.

Psychedelic purple


The pure essence of purple was approximated in pigment in the late 1960s by mixing fluorescent magenta
Magenta

Magenta is a purplish pink color evoked by lights with less power in yellowish-green wavelengths than in blue and red wavelengths . In light experiments, magenta can be produced by removing the lime-green wavelengths from white light....
 and fluorescent blue
Blue

Blue is a colour, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 440?490 Nanometre....
 pigments together to make fluorescent purple to use in psychedelic
Psychedelic

The word 'psychedelic' is an English term coined from the Greek language words for "soul," ???? , and "manifest," d???? . A psychedelic experience is characterized by the perception of aspects of one's mind previously unknown, or by the creative exuberance of the mind liberated from its ostensibly ordinary fetters....
 black light
Black light

File:Ultraviolet.svgA Black light or UV Light is a lamp emitting electromagnetic radiation that is almost exclusively in the soft ultraviolet range, and emits very little Optical spectrum....
 painting
Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting....
s. This shade of purple was very popular among hippie
Hippie

The hippie subculture was originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the early 1960s and spread around the world. The word hippie derives from hipster , and was initially used to describe beatniks who had moved into San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district....
s and was the favorite color of Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall Hendrix was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter whose guitar playing continues to be a considerable influence on rock music....
, therefore it is called psychedelic purple. It is shaded somewhat more toward the magenta than electric purple.

In the 1980s there was a Jimi Hendrix Museum in a Victorian house
Victorian house

Victorian house styles include Second Empire, Queen Anne Style architecture, Stick , Shingle-style, Richardsonian Romanesque, and others....
 on the east side of Central Ave. one half block south of Haight Street in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco which was painted this color.

Mulberry


The color mulberry is displayed at right. This color is a representation of the color of mulberry
Mulberry

Morus or Mulberry is a genus of 10?16 species of deciduous trees native to warm, temperate, and subtropical regions of Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas, with the majority of the species native to Asia....
 jam or pie
Pie

A pie is a baked dish which is usually made of a pastry dough shell that covers or completely contains a filling of various sweetness or savoury ingredients....
. This was a Crayola
Crayola

Crayola is a brand of marking utensils, such as markers, chalk, crayons, and colored pencils manufactured by Crayola LLC . The Crayola company was one of the first to make its crayons, chalk, markers, and colored pencils as well as other writing utensils and artistry tools non-toxic....
 crayon
Crayon

A crayon is a stick of colored wax, charcoal, chalk, or other materials used for writing and drawing. A crayon made of oiled chalk is called an oil pastel; when made of pigment with a dry binder, it is simply a pastel....
 color from 1958 to 2003.

The first recorded use of Mulberry as a color name in English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 was in 1776.

Pansy purple


Purple Pansy
The pansy
Pansy

The pansy or pansy violets are a large group of hybrid plants cultivated as garden flowers. Pansies are derived from Viola species Viola tricolor Hybrid ized with other viola species, these hybrids are referred to as Viola ? wittrockiana or less commonly Viola tricolor hortensis....
 flower has varieties that exhibit three different colors: pansy (a deep shade of violet), pansy pink, and pansy purple.

The first recorded use of Pansy Purple as a color name in English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 was in 1814.

Tokyo purple


Flag of Tokyo
Tokyo purple is the color of the flag
Flag

A flag is a piece of cloth, often flown from a pole or Mast , generally used symbolically for signaling or identification. The term flag is also used to refer to the graphic design employed by a flag, or to its depiction in another medium....
 of the prefecture
Prefectures of Japan

The prefectures of Japan are the country's 47 sub-national jurisdictions: one "metropolis" , Tokyo; one "Circuit #Japan" , Hokkaido; two urban prefectures , Osaka Prefecture and Kyoto Prefecture; and 43 other prefectures ....
 of Tokyo
Tokyo

, officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan of Japan and located on the eastern side of the main island Honshu. The twenty-three special wards of Tokyo, each governed as a city, cover the area that was once the Tokyo City in the eastern part of the prefecture, and total over 8 million people....
 in the Kanto
Kanto region

The is a geographical area of Honshu, the largest island of Japan. The region encompasses seven Prefectures of Japan which overlaps the Greater Tokyo Area: Gunma Prefecture, Tochigi Prefecture, Ibaraki Prefecture, Saitama Prefecture, Tokyo, Chiba Prefecture, and Kanagawa Prefecture....
 region
Regions of Japan

The regions of Japan are not official administrative units, but have been traditionally used as the regional division of Japan in a number of contexts....
 of Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
. This shade of dark purple has been associated with Tokyo (formerly called Edo) since ancient times.

Purple in nature


Plant
Plant

Plants are Life organisms belonging to the Kingdom Plantae. They include familiar organisms such as trees, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae....
s
  • Purple needlegrass
    Stipa

    This article is about a type of grass. For the aircraft built by Caproni, see Stipa-Caproni.Stipa is a genus of around 300 large Perennial plant hermaphrodite grasses collectively known as feather grass, needle grass, and spear grass....
     is the state grass of California
    California

    California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
    .


Animal
Animal

Animals are a major group of multicellular, eukaryotic organisms of the Kingdom Animalia or Metazoa. Their body plan eventually becomes fixed as they develop, although some undergo a process of metamorphosis later on in their life....
s
  • The purple frog
    Purple Frog

    Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis is a frog species belonging to the family Sooglossidae. It can be found in the Western Ghats in India. Common names for this species are Purple Frog or Pignose Frog....
     is a new species of amphibian
    Amphibian

    Amphibians , such as frogs, toads, salamanders, newts and caecilians, are cold-blooded animals that metamorphose from a juvenile, water-breathing form to an adult, air-breathing form....
     discovered in India
    India

    India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
     in 2003.


Purple in human culture


Anti-apartheid movement
Anti-Apartheid Movement

Anti-Apartheid Movement, originally known as the Girlcott Movement, was a British organization that was at the center of the international movement opposing South Africa under apartheid and supporting South Africa's Blacks....
  • The Purple Rain Protest
    Purple Rain Protest

    Also: Purple Rain Revolt, and Purple Rain RiotOn September 2, 1989, four days before South Africa's racially segregated parliament held its elections, Burg Street in Cape Town rained purple....
     was a protest against apartheid that took place in Cape Town
    Cape Town

    Cape Town is the second most populous city in South Africa, forming part of the metropolitan municipality of the City of Cape Town. It is the provincial Capital of the Western Cape, as well as the legislature capital of South Africa, where the Parliament of South Africa and many government offices are located....
    , South Africa
    South Africa

    The Republic of South Africa, also known by Official names of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa....
     on September 2, 1989, in which a police water cannon
    Water cannon

    A water cannon is a device that shoots a high-pressure stream of water. Typically, water cannons can deliver a large volume of water, often over dozens of metres / hundreds of feet....
     with purple dye sprayed thousands of demonstrators. This led to the slogan The purple shall govern
    The purple shall govern

    The purple shall govern was an anti-Apartheid slogan. The phrase was an adaptation of placards reading "the people shall govern" during an anti-apartheid protest in Cape Town, South Africa in September 1989 after the protesters used a police water cannon to color nearby landmarks purple....
    .


Astronomy
Astronomy

Astronomy is the science of Astronomical object and Phenomenon that originate outside the Earth's atmosphere . It is concerned with the evolution, physics, chemistry, meteorology, and motion of celestial objects, as well as the physical cosmology....
  • One of the star
    Star

    A star is a massive, luminous ball of Plasma that is held together by its own gravity. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun, which is the source of most of the energy on Earth....
    s in the Pleiades
    Pleiades

    Pleiades can refer to:*Pleiades ? open cluster of stars in the constellation Taurus**Pleiades in folklore and literature - interpretations and traditional meanings of the star cluster among various human cultures...
    , called Pleione
    Pleione (star)

    Pleione is a star in the constellation Taurus and a member of the Pleiades open cluster. It is approximately 440 light years from Earth.Pleione is a blue-white stellar classification main sequence with a mean apparent magnitude of +5.05....
    , is sometimes called Purple Pleione because, being a fast spinning star, it has a purple hue caused by its blue-white color being obscured by a spinning ring of electrically excited red hydrogen
    Hydrogen

    Hydrogen is the chemical element with atomic number 1. It is represented by the chemical symbol H. At standard temperature and pressure, hydrogen is a colorless, odorless, nonmetallic, tasteless, highly combustion and explosive Diatomic molecule gas with the molecular formula H2....
     gas.


Billiard games
Billiards

Cue sports are a wide variety of Game of skill generally played with a cue stick which is used to strike billiard balls, moving them around a Baize-covered billiards table bounded by rubber ....
  • Purple is the color of the ball in Snooker Plus
    Snooker Plus

    Snooker plus is a largely-obsolete variation on the cue sport of snooker.The variant was created by Joe Davis, the reigning World Snooker Championship of his era, and introduced to the public on 26 October 1959 during a major snooker tournament....
     with a 10-point value.


Calendar
Calendar

A calendar is a system of organize days for a social, religious, commercial or administrative purpose. This organization is done by giving names to periods of time ? typically days, weeks, months and years....
s
  • Purple is associated with Saturday on the Thai solar calendar
    Thai solar calendar

    The Thai solar calendar, Suriyakati , has been the official and prevalent calendar in Thailand since it was adopted by King Chulalongkorn in 1888, although the Western calendar year is sometimes used in business, and quite often in banking....
    . Anyone may wear purple on Saturdays and anyone born on a Saturday may adopt purple as their color.


Comedy
Comedy

Comedy as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse generally intended to amuse, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western culture origins are found in Ancient Greece....
  • The Purple Onion
    The Purple Onion

    The Purple Onion is a celebrated cellar club in the North Beach area of San Francisco, California located at 140 Columbus . The club offers an intimate, 80-person setting and was a popular influence in local music and entertainment during the Beat era....
     is a comedy club in the North Beach
    North Beach

    North Beach may refer to a number of places in the world:United States*North Beach, San Francisco, California*North Beach, Florida, a census-designated place in Indian River County...
     area of San Francisco, California
    San Francisco, California

    The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States, with a 2007 estimated population of 799,183....
    .


Dance
Dance

Dance is an art form that generally refers to Motion of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of Emotional expression, social social interaction or presented in a spirituality or performance setting....
  • The Purple Moon Dance Project is a dance
    Dance

    Dance is an art form that generally refers to Motion of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of Emotional expression, social social interaction or presented in a spirituality or performance setting....
     group in San Francisco.


Fraternities and sororities
  • Phi Gamma Delta
    Phi Gamma Delta

    Phi Gamma Delta is a collegiate social Fraternities and sororities with 107 chapters and 7 colonies across the United States and Canada. It was founded at Washington & Jefferson College, Pennsylvania in 1848 and its headquarters are located in Lexington, Kentucky, Kentucky, USA....
     recognizes royal purple as its official fraternity color.
  • Sigma Lambda Beta
    Sigma Lambda Beta

    Sigma Lambda Beta is a Latino based social fraternity established on cultural understanding and wisdom. Founded on April 4, 1986 at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, the organization is committed to create and expand multicultural leadership, promote academic excellence, advance cultural awareness and service while influencing its mis...
     recognizes royal purple and pure white
    White

    White is a color, the Color vision#Physiology of color perception which is evoked by light that stimulates all three types of color sensitive cone cells in the human eye in near equal amount and with high brightness compared to the surroundings....
     as its official fraternal colors.
  • Sigma Lambda Gamma
    Sigma Lambda Gamma

    'Sigma Lambda Gamma' is a sorority founded on April 9, 1990, at the University of Iowa....
     recognizes majestic purple and shocking pink
    Pink

    Pink is a pale red color; the use of the word for the color was first recorded in the late 17th century, describing the flowers of Dianthus, flowering plants in the genus Dianthus. Pink itself is a combination of red and white....
     as its official colors.
  • Delta Phi Epsilon
    Delta Phi Epsilon (social)

    Delta Phi Epsilon is an international Student organizations in North America founded on March 17, 1917 at New York University School of Law in New York City....
     recognizes Royal Purple and Pure Gold
    Gold

    Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au and atomic number 79. It is a highly sought-after precious metal, having been used as money, as a store of value, in jewelry, in sculpture, and for ornamentation since the beginning of recorded history....
     as its official colors.
  • Omega Psi Phi
    Omega Psi Phi

    Omega Psi Phi is an international Fraternities and sororities and was the first African-American national fraternal organization to be founded at a Historically Black colleges and universities....
     recognizes royal purple and old gold as their official colors.
  • Delta Tau Delta
    Delta Tau Delta

    Delta Tau Delta is a United States-based international Fraternities and sororities.Delta Tau Delta was founded in 1858 at Bethany College , Bethany, West Virginia ....
     recognizes Royal Purple, Pearl White, and Old Gold as it's official fraternity colors.


Heraldry
Heraldry

Heraldry is the profession, study, or art of devising, granting, and blazoning Coat of arms and ruling on questions of rank or protocol, as exercised by an officer of arms....
  • Porpora, or purpure
    Purpure

    In heraldry, purpure is a tincture , more or less the equivalent of the colour "purple", and is one of the five main or most usually used colours ....
    , was not one of the usual tinctures in European heraldry
    Heraldry

    Heraldry is the profession, study, or art of devising, granting, and blazoning Coat of arms and ruling on questions of rank or protocol, as exercised by an officer of arms....
    , being added at a late date to bring the number of tinctures plus metals to seven, so that they could be given planetary associations. The classic early example of purpure is in the coat of arms
    Coat of arms

    A coat of arms, more properly called an armorial achievement, armorial bearings or often just arms for short, in European tradition, is a design belonging to a particular person and used by them in a wide variety of ways....
     of the Kingdom of León
    Kingdom of León

    Kingdom of Le?n was an independent country situated in the northwest region of the Iberian Peninsula. It was founded in 910 A.D. when the Christian princes of Kingdom of Asturias along the Bay of Biscay shifted their main seat from Oviedo to the city of Le?n, Spain....
    : argent, a lion purpure, as early as 1245.


History
HIStory

HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I is a double album by Michael Jackson, released on June 20, 1995, and is Jackson's ninth. The first disc, named "HIStory Begins" consists of a selection of Jackson's greatest hits from the singer's past fifteen years, while the second, named "HIStory Continues" features new songs, with the...
  • Byzantine
    Byzantine

    The word Byzantine may refer to:Topics directly related to the Byzantine Empire* A citizen of Byzantine Empire, or native Greeks during the Middle Ages ....
     empresses gave birth in the Purple Chamber
    Chamber

    Chamber may refer to:*Chamber , a Marvel Comics superhero associated with the X-Men*Chamber , the portion of the barrel or firing cylinder in which the cartridge is inserted prior to being fired...
     of the palace of the Byzantine Emperors. Therefore, being named Porphyrogenitus ("born to the purple") marked a dynastic emperor as opposed to a general who won the throne by his effort.
  • In China
    China

    China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
    , the Chinese name of the Forbidden City
    Forbidden City

    The Forbidden City was the China imperial palace from the Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty. It is located in the middle of Beijing, People's Republic of China, and now houses the Palace Museum....
     literally means "purple forbidden city" ??? with first character ? meaning purple (even though the Chinese Emperor himself wore yellow
    Yellow

    Yellow is the color evoked by light that stimulates both the L and M cone cells of the retina about equally, but does not significantly stimulate the S cone cells; that is, light with much red and green but not very much blue....
    , which was considered in China to be the imperial color).


Holocaust
  • The purple triangle
    Purple triangle

    The purple triangle was a Nazi concentration camp badges used by the Nazi party to identify several religious minorities. Nazism opposed all non-Christian or unorthodox-Christian religious minorities ....
     was a Nazi concentration camp badge
    Nazi concentration camp badges

    Nazi concentration camp badges, primarily triangles, were part of the system of identification in Nazi camps. They were used in the concentration camps in the Nazism-occupied countries to identify the reason the prisoners had been placed there....
     used by the Nazis to identify several un-orthodox non-conformist religious groups known as Bibelforscher, mostly Jehovah’s Witnesses.


Literature
Literature

Literature is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word means "acquaintance with letters" . In Western culture the most basic written literary types include fiction and non-fiction....
  • Alice Walker
    Alice Walker

    Alice Malsenior Walker is an United States author, self-declared feminist and womanist?the latter a term she herself coined to make special distinction for the experiences of women of color....
    , author of The Color Purple
    The Color Purple

    The Color Purple is an acclaimed 1982 in literature epistolary novel by United States author Alice Walker. It received the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award....
    ,     said, "Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender
    Lavender (color)

    Lavender is a pale tint of violet . It applies particularly to the color of the lavender. The web color called lavender is displayed at right?it matches the color of the very palest part of the lavender flower; however, the more saturated color shown below as Lavender #Lavender more closely matches the average color of the lavender flo...
    ."
  • As a result of its association with royalty and luxury, the term 'purple' is often used to describe pretentious or overly embellished literature. For example, a paragraph containing an excessive number of long and unusual words is called a purple passage (see Purple prose
    Purple prose

    Purple prose is a term of literary criticism used to describe passages, or sometimes entire literary works, written in prose so overly extravagant, ornate, or flowery as to break the flow and draw attention to itself....
    ).


Microbiology
Microbiology

Microbiology is the study of microorganisms, which are unicellular or cell-cluster microscopic organisms. This includes eukaryote such as fungi and protists, and prokaryotes, which are bacteria and archaea....
  • In April 2007 it was suggested that early archaea
    Archaea

    The Archaea are a group of single-celled microorganisms. A single individual or species from this domain is called an archaeon . Archaea, like bacteria, are prokaryotic....
     may have used retinal
    Retinal

    Retinal, also called retinaldehyde or vitamin A aldehyde, is one of the three forms of vitamin A. Retinal is a polyene chromophore, and bound to proteins called opsins, is the chemical basis of animal vision....
    , a purple pigment, instead of chlorophyll
    Chlorophyll

    Chlorophyll is a green pigment found in most plants, algae, and cyanobacteria. Its name is derived from Greek language: ?????? and f????? ....
    , to extract energy
    Energy

    In physics, energy is a scalar physical quantity that describes the amount of Work_ that can be performed by a force. Energy is an attribute of objects and systems that is subject to a conservation law....
     from the sun
    Sun

    The Sun , a G V star, is the star at the center of the Solar System. The Earth and other matter orbit the Sun, which by itself accounts for about 98.6% of the Solar System's mass....
    . If so, large areas of the ocean
    Ocean

    An ocean is a major body of Seawater, and a principal component of the hydrosphere. Approximately 71% of the Earth's surface is covered by ocean, a World Ocean that is customarily divided into several principal oceans and smaller seas....
     and shoreline would have been colored purple; this is called the Purple Earth theory.


Military
Military science

Military science is the process of translating national defence policy to produce military capability by employing military scientists, including: theorists, researchers, experimental scientists, applied scientists, designers, engineers, test technicians, and military personnel responsible for prototyping....
  • In the United States
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
     and United Kingdom
    United Kingdom

    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
     militaries
    Military

    A military is an organization authorized by its nation to use force, usually including use of weapons, in defending its country by combating actual or Threat of force ....
    , purple refers to programs or assignments that are "joint", i. e., that are not confined to a single service such as the Army
    Army

    An army , in the broadest sense, is the land-based armed forces of a nation. It may also include other branches of the military such as an air force....
     or Navy
    Navy

    A navy is the branch of a nation's military forces principally designated for naval warfare and amphibious warfare; namely, lake- or ocean-borne combat operations and related functions....
    , but apply to the entire defense establishment. Assignment to one or more joint billet
    Billet

    A billet is a term for living quarters to which a person, generally a soldier, is assigned to sleep. Historically, it referred to a private dwelling that was required to accept the soldier....
    s is required for promotion to flag rank (Rear Admiral
    Admiral

    Admiral is the military rank, or part of the name of the ranks, of the highest naval officers. It is usually considered a full admiral and above Vice Admiral and below Admiral of the Fleet/Fleet Admiral....
     and higher) in the U.S. Navy
    United States Navy

    The United States Navy is the navy of the United States Armed Forces. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy currently has approximately 331,682 personnel on active duty as of 31 December 2008 and 124,000 in the United States Navy Reserve....
    . Officers in joint billets are sometimes referred to as "wearing purple" (the phrase is purely metaphorical as there are no purple uniforms in the U.S. or UK armed forces
    British Armed Forces

    The armed forces of the United Kingdom, commonly known as the British Armed Forces or His/Her Majesty's Armed Forces, and sometimes legally the Armed Forces of the Crown, encompasses a Royal Navy, an British Army, and an Royal Air Force....
    ).
  • During and before World War II
    World War II

    World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
    , the Japanese
    Empire of Japan

    The Empire of Japan was a Japanese political entity that existed during the period from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 until its defeat in World War II in 1945....
     used a code known as PURPLE
    Purple

    Purple is a general term for the range of shades of color occurring between red and blue. It occurs by mixing the primary colors red and blue in varying proportions, with possibly a very small quantity of the third primary color ....
     or the Purple Code. The Allies
    Allies

    In general, allies are people, groups or nations that have joined together in an association for mutual benefit or to achieve some common purpose....
    ' military successes in the Pacific theater
    Pacific Theater

    Pacific Theater or Pacific Theatre may refer to*Asian and Pacific theatre of World War I* Pacific War**Pacific Ocean theater of World War II...
     depended on the fact that the Japanese did not know that Allied cryptographers had broken the code.
  • The Purple Heart
    Purple Heart

    The Purple Heart is a United States Awards and decorations of the United States military awarded in the name of the President of the United States to those who have been wounded or killed while serving on or after April 5, 1917 with the Military of the United States....
     is a United States
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
     military decoration
    Awards and decorations of the United States military

    Awards and decorations of the United States Military are military decorations which recognize service and personal accomplishments while a member of the United States armed forces....
     awarded in the name of the President of the United States
    President of the United States

    The President of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in the United States by influence and recognition....
     to those who have been wounded or killed while serving on or after April 5, 1917 with the U.S. military
    Military of the United States

    The United States Armed Forces are the overall unified armed forces of the United States. The United States military was first formed by the second Second Continental Congress to defend the new nation against the British Empire in the American Revolutionary War....
    .


Music
Music

Music is an art form whose media is sound organized in time. Common elements of music are pitch , rhythm , dynamics , and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture ....
  • Deep Purple
    Deep Purple

    Deep Purple are an English Rock music band formed in Hertford, Hertfordshire in 1968. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they are considered to be among the pioneers of Heavy metal music and modern hard rock, although some band members have tried not to categorize themselves as any one genre....
     is a rock
    Rock and roll

    Rock and roll is a form of music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its roots lay mainly in rhythm and blues, Country music, folk music, gospel music, and jazz....
     band.
  • Deep Purple
    Deep Purple (song)

    "Deep Purple" was the biggest hit written by pianist Peter DeRose, who broadcast, 1923 to 1939, with May Singhi as "The Sweethearts of the Air" on the NBC radio network....
     is also the name of a popular song that was the favorite song of Babe Ruth
    Babe Ruth

    George Herman Ruth, Jr. , also popularly known as "Babe", "The Bambino", and "The Sultan of Swat", was an United States Major League Baseball baseball player from –....
    .
  • Purple
    Purple (album)

    Purple is the second album released by the United States alternative rock band Stone Temple Pilots, on June 7, 1994 on Atlantic Records. It spawned three singles?"Big Empty", "Vasoline", and "Interstate Love Song"?and two promotional singles....
     is a 1994 album by the band Stone Temple Pilots
    Stone Temple Pilots

    Stone Temple Pilots is a Grammy Award-winning American Rock music band consisting of Scott Weiland , brothers Robert DeLeo and Dean DeLeo , and Eric Kretz ....
    .
  • Purple is the favorite color of the pop
    Pop music

    Pop music is a music genre that features a noticeable rhythmic element, melodies and hook , a mainstream style and a conventional structure.The term "pop music" was first used in 1926 in the sense of "having popular appeal" , but since the 1950s it has been used in the sense of a musical genre, originally characterized as a lighter alternat...
     celebrity
    Celebrity

    A celebrity is a widely-recognized or notable person who commands a high degree of public and media attention. The word stems from the Latin verb "celebrare" but one may not become a celebrity unless public and mass media interest is piqued....
     Prince
    Prince (musician)

    Prince Rogers Nelson is an United States musician. He performs under the Mononymous person name of Prince, but has also been known by various other names, among them an Love Symbol ...
    . His 1984 film and album Purple Rain
    Purple Rain (album)

    Purple Rain is an album by Prince and The Revolution , the soundtrack album to the Purple Rain .Purple Rain regularly is ranked among the best albums in rock music history....
     is one of his best known works. The title track
    Purple Rain (song)

    "Purple Rain" is a power ballad by Prince and the The Revolution . It was his third US single and title track from the 1984 album Purple Rain , which in turn was the soundtrack album for the 1984 Purple Rain ....
     is Prince's signature song
    Signature song

    A signature song is the one song that a popular and well-established singing or band is most closely identified with, even if they have had success with a variety of songs....
     and is nearly always played in concert to this day. Prince encourages his fans to wear purple to his concerts.
  • Purple Feather Records
    Purple Feather Records

    Purple Feather Records is an independent record label started by the members of the rock band The Donnas. In or before May 2006, The Donnas and Atlantic Records "parted ways." The band then sought a deal with other record companies but was unable to get one with terms that were to their liking, so the following year, they formed their own lab...
     is a record label owned by U.S. rock band The Donnas
    The Donnas

    The Donnas are an United States all-women band hard rock rock band from Palo Alto, California. They draw inspiration from The Ramones, AC/DC, and Kiss ....
    .
  • Purple Haze
    Purple Haze

    "Purple Haze" is a song written in 1966 in music and recorded in 1967 in music by The Jimi Hendrix Experience and released as a single in both the United Kingdom and the United States....
     is one of the most popular songs by Jimi Hendrix
    Jimi Hendrix

    James Marshall Hendrix was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter whose guitar playing continues to be a considerable influence on rock music....
    .
  • Purple People Eater
    Purple People Eater

    "The Purple People Eater" was a novelty song, written and performed by Sheb Wooley , that reached #1 in the Billboard magazine pop charts in 1958....
     was one of the biggest rock and roll hits of 1958.
  • Purple Rain, song by Prince
    Prince (musician)

    Prince Rogers Nelson is an United States musician. He performs under the Mononymous person name of Prince, but has also been known by various other names, among them an Love Symbol ...
  • Purple Ribbon Records
    Purple Ribbon Records

    Purple Ribbon Label is a record label owned by OutKast and distributed through Virgin Records. The label was formerly known as Aquemini Records until Andr? 3000 lost interest and pursued acting....
     is a hip-hop
    Hip hop

    Hip hop is a cultural movement built largely around the music genre of hip hop music, which developed in New York City during the 1970s primarily among African Americans and Latino Americans....
     record label
    Record label

    In the music industry, a record label can be a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of recorded sound and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the Record producer, manufacturing, distribution , marketing and promotion, and enforcement of copyright protec...
     owned by rapper Big Boi
    Big Boi

    Antwan Andr? Patton , better known by his stage name Big Boi, is an United States rapper, song-writer, record producer, and one half of the alternative hip hop duo Outkast....
     of the rap duo Outkast
    OutKast

    OutKast is an United States hip hop music duet based out of East Point, Georgia, a city south of Atlanta, Georgia, Georgia . The duo was originally known as The OKB but later changed its name to OutKast....
    . 2005 saw the release of the mixtape Got Purp? Vol 2
    Got Purp? Vol 2

    Got Purp? Vol. 2 is the second album released by the Purple Ribbon All-Stars presented by Big Boi. The first, titled Got That Purp is a mix-tape released with The Aphilliates....
     featuring the Purple Ribbon All-Stars
    Purple Ribbon All-Stars

    Purple Ribbon All-Stars is a southern rap Supergroup under the Purple Ribbon Records label. The group consists of Big Boi, Konkrete, Bubba Sparxxx, Sleepy Brown, Rock D, Scar, Big Gee, and Vonnegutt....
     and other artists on the label.
  • Purple Music, Inc. is a company in Switzerland
    Switzerland

    Switzerland is a landlocked Swiss Alps country of roughly 7.7 million people in Western Europe with an area of 41,285 km?. Switzerland is a federal republic consisting of 26 states called Cantons of Switzerland....
     that produces house music
    House music

    House music is a style of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, USA in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discoth?ques catering to the African-American, Latino, and gay communities, first in Chicago, then in New York City and Detroit....
    .
  • The New Riders of the Purple Sage
    New Riders of the Purple Sage

    New Riders of the Purple Sage is an American country rock band. The group emerged from the psychedelic rock scene in San Francisco, California in 1969, and its original lineup included members of the Grateful Dead....
     is an American country rock
    Country rock

    Country rock is a musical genre formed from the fusion of Rock music with country music, with its country origins being initially referenced to the rockabilly music of the 1950s....
     band. The group emerged from the psychedelic rock
    Psychedelic rock

    CharacteristicsThe musical style typically features electric guitars, 12 strings being preferred for their 'jangle'; elaborate studio effects - backwards taping, panning , phasing, long delay loops and extreme reverb; exotic instrumentation, with a particular fondness for the sitar and tabla; A strong keyboard presence, especially Hammond, Far...
     scene in San Francisco in 1969, and its original lineup included members of the Grateful Dead
    Grateful Dead

    The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of Rock music, Folk music, bluegrass music, blues, reggae, country music, jazz, Psychedelic rock, space rock and gospel music?and for live performances of long musical improvisati...
    .
  • The Purple Bottle
    The Purple Bottle

    "The Purple Bottle" is the second single from Animal Collective 2005 in music album, Feels. The "Stevie Wonder" mix of the title song features a verse taken from Stevie Wonder's song "I Just Called to Say I Love You," which can be heard best after the 2:30 mark....
     is a song by noise pop
    Noise pop

    Noise pop is a term used to loosely describe a number of alternative rock bands that fuse punk rock's attitude and anger with the atonal noise, Audio feedback, and free song structures of noise music, presented in a decidedly pop context....
     band Animal Collective
    Animal Collective

    Animal Collective is a music collective of avant-garde musicians originally from Baltimore, Maryland. Animal Collective consists of Avey Tare , Panda Bear , Deakin, or Deacon as spelled on Strawberry Jam , and Geologist ....
     from their Feels
    Feels

    Feels is the sixth studio album by Baltimore-based band Animal Collective, released in 2005 by FatCat Records. Animal Collective have described this as being their "love record" because every song on the album is a love song....
     album.
  • Start Wearing Purple
    Start Wearing Purple

    "Start Wearing Purple" is a song by gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello, written by frontman Eugene H?tz. The song was packaged as a double single along with "Sally ", and released as the band's second single in February 2006....
     is a song by gypsy punk
    Gypsy punk

    Gypsy punk is the term used to describe a hybrid Music genre that crosses traditional Roma music with punk rock and other brands of rebel music....
     band Gogol Bordello
    Gogol Bordello

    Gogol Bordello is a multi-ethnic Gypsy punk musical band from the Lower East Side of New York City that formed in 1999 and is known for its theatrical stage shows....
    .


Parapsychology
Parapsychology

Parapsychology is a discipline that seeks to investigate the existence and causes of psychic abilities and Survivalism using the scientific method....
  • People with purple auras
    Aura (paranormal)

    In parapsychology and many forms of spirituality, an aura is a field of subtle, luminous radiation supposedly surrounding a person or object like the Halo or aureola of religious art....
     are said to have a love of ritual and ceremony.


Politics
Politics

Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions. The term is generally applied to behaviour within civil governments, but politics has been observed in all human group interactions, including corporation, academia, and religion institutions....
  • In British
    United Kingdom

    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
     politics
    Politics

    Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions. The term is generally applied to behaviour within civil governments, but politics has been observed in all human group interactions, including corporation, academia, and religion institutions....
    , purple is used to represent the United Kingdom Independence Party
    United Kingdom Independence Party

    The United Kingdom Independence Party is a right-wing United Kingdom political party. Its principal aim is the withdrawal of the UK from the European Union....
    , a eurosceptic party wanting to pull Britain out of the European Union
    European Union

    The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
    .
  • In the politics of the Netherlands
    Politics of the Netherlands

    The politics of the Netherlands take place within the framework of a parliamentary system representative democracy, a constitutional monarchy and a decentralization unitary state....
    , purple
    Purple (government)

    Purple is the nickname of a government coalition of social democracy and liberalism, excluding christian democracy. It is derived from the combination of the colour of the liberals and social-democrats ....
     ("paars" in Dutch) means a government coalition of right-liberals and socialists
    Socialism

    Socialism refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating public or state ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods, and a society characterized by equality for all individuals, with a fair or Egalitarianism method of compensation....
     (symbolized by blue and red, respectively), as opposed to the more common coalitions of the Christian-democratic
    Christian democracy in the Netherlands

    This article gives an overview of christian democracy in the Netherlands, which is also called Confessionalism , including political catholicism and Protestantism....
     center-party with one of the other two. From 1994 to 2002 there have been two purple cabinets.
  • In United States
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
     politics
    Politics

    Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions. The term is generally applied to behaviour within civil governments, but politics has been observed in all human group interactions, including corporation, academia, and religion institutions....
    , a purple state is a state equally balanced between Republican
    Republican Party (United States)

    The Republican Party is one of the two major party contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party . It is often called the Grand Old Party or the GOP....
    s (normally symbolized by red
    Red

    Red is any of a number of similar colors evoked by light consisting predominantly of the longest wavelengths of light discernible by the human eye, in the wavelength range of roughly 625?740 Nanometer....
    ) and Democrat
    Democratic Party (United States)

    The Democratic Party is one of two major party contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party . It is the oldest political party in continuous operation in the United States and it is one of the oldest parties in the world....
    s (normally symbolized as blue
    Blue

    Blue is a colour, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 440?490 Nanometre....
    )
see:red states and blue states.


Religious text
Religious text

Religious texts, also known as scripture, are the texts which various religious traditions consider to be sacred, or of central importance to their religious tradition....
  • In the Byzantine Empire, Gospel manuscript
    Manuscript

    A manuscript is any document that is written by hand, as opposed to being printed or reproduced in some other way. The term may also be used for information that is hand-recorded in other ways than writing, for example inscriptions that are chiselled upon a hard material or scratched as with a knife point in plaster or with a stylus on a wa...
    s were written in gold lettering on parchment
    Parchment

    Parchment is a thin material made from calfskin, sheepskin or Goatskin . Its most common use is as the pages of a book, codex or manuscript. It is distinct from leather in that parchment is not tanned, but stretched, scraped, and dried under tension, creating a stiff white, yellowish or translucent animal skin....
     that was colored Tyrian purple.


Rhyme
Rhyme

A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds in two or more different words and is most often used in poetry and songs. The word "rhyme" may also refer to a short poem, such as a rhyming couplet or other brief rhyming poem such as nursery rhymes....
  • Robert Burns
    Robert Burns

    Robert Burns was a poet and a lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is also in English and a 'light' Scots dialect, accessible to an audience beyond Scotland....
     rhymes purple with "curple" in his Epistle to Mrs. Scott. Burns is, as far as we can tell, the only writer to have used the word. A curple refers to 1) the small of the waist before the flare of the hips or 2) a derriere, rump or behind.
  • Curple is a word out of Scotland
    Scotland

    conventional_long_name = ScotlandAlba|common_name= Scotland|image_flag = Flag of Scotland.svg|flag_width = 130px...
    , which refers to the hindquarters of a horse. The current Shorter OED lists 'curple' dating from 1591.
  • In the song Grace Kelly
    Grace Kelly

    Grace Patricia Kelly was an Academy Award-winning United States film and Stage actor and fashion icon. Upon marrying Rainier III, Prince of Monaco in 1956, she became Her Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco, but was generally known as Princess Grace of Monaco....
     by Mika
    Mika (singer)

    Michael Holbrook Penniman , known as Mika , is a London, Grammy-nominated and 2008 BRIT Awards-winning singer-songwriter, who has a recording contract with Casablanca Records and Universal Music....
     the word purple is rhymed with "hurtful".
  • In his hit song "Dang Me
    Dang Me

    "Dang Me" is a 1964 song by United States country music artist Roger Miller, and that year's Grammy Award winner for Best Country & Western Song....
    ," Roger Miller
    Roger Miller

    Roger Dean Miller was an United States singer, songwriter and musician, best known for his mid-1960s country/pop hits such as King of the Road , Dang Me and England Swings....
     sings these lines:
Rose
Rose

A rose is a perennial plant flower shrub or vine of the genus Rosa, within the family Rosaceae, that contains over 100 species and comes in a variety of colors....
s are red
Red

Red is any of a number of similar colors evoked by light consisting predominantly of the longest wavelengths of light discernible by the human eye, in the wavelength range of roughly 625?740 Nanometer....
, violets
Violet (plant)

Viola is a genus of flowering plants in the violet family Violaceae, with around 400?500 species distributed around the world. Most species are found in the temperate Northern Hemisphere, however viola species are also found in widely divergent areas such as Hawaii, Australasia, and the Andes in South America....
 are purple
Sugar
Sugar

Sugar is a class of edible crystalline substances, mainly sucrose, lactose, and fructose. Human taste buds interpret its flavor as sweet. Sugar as a basic food carbohydrate primarily comes from sugar cane and from sugar beet, but also appears in fruit, honey, sorghum, sugar maple , and in many other sources....
 is sweet and so is maple surple
Maple syrup

Maple syrup is a sweetener made from the sap of maple trees. In Canada and the United States it is most often eaten with waffles and pancakes. It is sometimes used as an ingredient in baking, the making of candy, preparing desserts, or as a sugar source and flavoring agent in making beer....
 [sic]
  • In the children's novel Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger by Louis Sachar
    Louis Sachar

    Louis Sachar and is an United States author of children's literature who is best known for the Sideways Stories From Wayside School book series and the 1998 novel Holes , for which Sachar won a National Book Award and the Newbery Medal....
     a character spends a chapter trying desperately to find a rhyme for purple, eventually settling for "burp'll" a contraction for "burp will."


Science fiction
Science fiction

Science fiction is a broad genre of fiction that often involves speculations based on current or future science or technology. Science fiction is found in books, art, television, films, games, theatre, and other media....
  • In the Star Trek
    Star Trek

    Star Trek is an American Science fiction on television entertainment series and media franchise. The Star Trek fictional universe created by Gene Roddenberry is the setting of six television series including the original 1966 Star Trek: The Original Series, in addition to ten feature films with Star Trek to be released on May 8,...
     universe
    Fictional universe

    A fictional universe is a consistency fictional setting with unique background elements such as an imaginary history or geography, and possibly fantasy or science fiction concepts like magic or faster than light travel....
    , Klingon
    Klingon

    Klingons are a warrior race in the fictional Star Trek universe. They are recurring villains in the 1960s television show Star Trek: The Original Series, and have appeared in all five spin-off series and seven feature films....
    s have purple blood
    Blood

    Blood is a specialized bodily fluid that delivers necessary substances to the body's Cell s ? such as nutrients and oxygen ? and transports waste products away from those same cells....
    .
  • In the Star Wars
    Star Wars

    Star Wars is an epic film space opera Media franchise initially conceived by George Lucas. The first film in the franchise was simply titled Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, but later had the subtitle Episode IV: A New Hope added to distinguish it from its sequels and prequels....
     universe, Jedi Master Mace Windu
    Mace Windu

    Mace Windu is a fictional character in the Star Wars fictional universe. He is portrayed by actor Samuel L. Jackson in the Prequel trilogy ....
     has a purple lightsaber
    Lightsaber

    The lightsaber is a Weapons in science fiction with a key role in the Star Wars movies and in the List of Star Wars books, List of Star Wars video games and other forms of media that constitute the Expanded Universe ....
    .
  • Trance Gemini
    Trance Gemini

    Trance Gemini is a fictional character in the television series Andromeda , played by Canadian actress Laura Bertram.Her first appearance on the show is as a young, bubbly, purple-skinned Extraterrestrial life of an unknown origin with a prehensile tail ....
     from Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda was purple in the first few seasons.


Sexuality
Human sexuality

Human sexuality is how people experience and express themselves as sexual beings. Human sexuality has many aspects. Biology, sexuality refers to the reproductive mechanism as well as the basic biological drive that exists in all species and can encompass sexual intercourse and sexual contact in all its forms....
Today the color purple is also known as a "pride" color among the gay
Gay

The term gay was originally used, until well into the mid-20th century, primarily to refer to feelings of being "carefree," "happy," or "bright and showy"; it had also come to acquire some connotations of "immorality" as early as 1637....
 community.
  • At the June 24, 2007 San Francisco Gay Pride Parade
    San Francisco Pride

    The San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Celebration, usually known as San Francisco Pride, is a parade and festival held in June each year in San Francisco to celebrate the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people and their allies....
    , Yahoo passed out 3 7/16" in diameter round plastic stickers with a picture of a gay man or woman imaged as one of the Yahoo Gay Pride avatars against an HTML/CSS Purple
    Purple

    Purple is a general term for the range of shades of color occurring between red and blue. It occurs by mixing the primary colors red and blue in varying proportions, with possibly a very small quantity of the third primary color ....
     background that said Out, Proud, and Purple.
  • In the mid 1970s, there was a gay piano bar at 2223 Market St. between Noe and Castro in San Francisco called the Purple Pickle.


Sports
  • The National Basketball Association
    National Basketball Association

    The National Basketball Association is North America's premier professional men's basketball league, composed of thirty teams: twenty-nine in the United States and one in Canada....
    's Los Angeles Lakers
    Los Angeles Lakers

    The Los Angeles Lakers are a National Basketball Association team based in Los Angeles. The Lakers play their home games at Staples Center, which they share with their fellow NBA rival, the Los Angeles Clippers, and their sister team, the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association....
    , Phoenix Suns
    Phoenix Suns

    The Phoenix Suns are a Professional sports basketball team based in Phoenix, Arizona. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association ....
     and Sacramento Kings
    Sacramento Kings

    The Sacramento Kings are a professional basketball team based in Sacramento, California. The Kings are members of the National Basketball Association ....
     use purple as their primary color, though the Lakers formerly used the term "Forum Blue", in reference to their old arena The Forum
    The Forum

    The Forum of an ancient Roman city was the central meeting place of a city, around which stood the most important public buildings. The Roman Forum itself was considered the centre of the entire Roman Empire....
    . The National Hockey League
    National Hockey League

    The National Hockey League is a professional ice hockey league composed of 30 teams in North America. It is considered to be the premier professional ice hockey league in the world, and one of the North American Major professional sports leagues of the United States and Canada....
    's Los Angeles Kings
    Los Angeles Kings

    The Los Angeles Kings are a professional ice hockey team based in Los Angeles, California. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League ....
     use purple as one of their primary colors. In Major League Baseball
    Major League Baseball

    Major League Baseball is the highest level of play in American professional baseball. Specifically, Major League Baseball refers to the organization that operates the National League and the American League, by means of a joint organizational structure that has developed gradually between them since 1903 ....
    , purple is one of the primary colors for the Colorado Rockies
    Colorado Rockies

    The Colorado Rockies are a Major League Baseball team based in Denver, Colorado, Colorado. Established in 1993 Colorado Rockies season, the Rockies play in the National League West of the National League....
    . In the National Football League
    National Football League

    The National Football League is the Major North American professional sports leagues American football Sports league in the United States. It is an unincorporated 501#501.28c.29.286.29 association controlled by its members....
    , the Minnesota Vikings
    Minnesota Vikings

    The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Vikings compete in the NFC North of the National Football Conference in the National Football League ....
     and Baltimore Ravens
    Baltimore Ravens

    The Baltimore Ravens are a professional American football team based in Baltimore, Maryland. They compete in the AFC North of the American Football Conference in the National Football League ....
     use purple as main colors. The Australian Football League
    Australian Football League

    The 'Australian Football League' is the professional Australian national competition in the sport of Australian Rules Football.The league comprises sixteen teams which play 22 home and away rounds between late March and late August or early September....
    's Fremantle Dockers use purple as one of their primary colors. In Association football (Soccer) Australian A-League
    A-League

    The A-League is the premier Australasian domestic association football competition. Run by Australian governing body Football Federation Australia, it was founded in 2004 and staged its A-League 2005-06 in 2005-06....
     Club Perth Glory use purple as one of their primary colors and Italian Serie A
    Serie A

    Serie A is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top echelon of the Italian football league system. It is widely regarded as one of the elite leagues of the footballing world....
     club Fiorentina use purple as their primary color. In the NCAA, the Clemson Tigers
    Clemson Tigers

    The Clemson Tigers are any team that represents Clemson University as a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I or in the Atlantic Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference....
     primary team colors are purple and orange. Royal Purple is also one of the official colors of East Carolina University.


Transpersonal psychology
Transpersonal psychology

Transpersonal psychology is a school of psychology that studies the transpersonal, self-transcendence or spirituality aspects of the human experience....
  • In 1976, a chart by Timothy Leary
    Timothy Leary

    Timothy Francis Leary was an American writer, psychologist, futurist, and advocate of psychedelic drug research and one of the first people whose remains have been sent into space....
     and Robert Anton Wilson
    Robert Anton Wilson

    Robert Anton Wilson or RAW was an United States novelist, essayist, philosopher, psychonaut, futurologist and libertarian.Wilson described his writing as an "attempt to break down conditioned associations?to look at the world in a new way, with many models recognized as models or maps and no one model elevated to the Truth." ... ...
     called The Periodic Table of Energy outlining the philosophy
    Philosophy

    Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, truth, beauty, justice, validity, mind, and language....
     of Dr. Timothy Leary (The Eight Circuit Model of Consciousness)was given out by the Starflight Network, a group in Berkeley, California
    Berkeley, California

    Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in Northern California, in the United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland, California and Emeryville, California....
     that was founded by Robert Anton Wilson to promulgate Dr. Timothy Leary's philosophy. The Eighth or Psycho-Atomic Circuit was represented on the chart by the color psychedelic purple.


Video games
  • In the video game World of Warcraft
    World of Warcraft

    World of Warcraft, often referred to as WoW, is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game . It is Blizzard Entertainment's fourth released game set in the fantasy Warcraft universe, which was first introduced by Warcraft: Orcs & Humans in 1994 in video gaming....
    , items of an "Epic" quality (extremely rare items) are the color purple, and are often referred to as "Purples".
  • In DragonFable
    DragonFable

    DragonFable is a free, online, browser game, single-player game Role-playing game developed by Artix Entertainment. Created in July 2005, the game went into beta testing on November 21, and on June 10, 2006, the game was officially released....
     and AdventureQuest Worlds
    AdventureQuest Worlds

    AdventureQuest Worlds is a browser-based Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game developed by Artix Entertainment in 2008. Unlike most MMORPGs, AdventureQuest Worlds was developed entirely in Adobe Flash, letting it, among other things, to load and play quickly, even on slow internet connections....
    , the crystal weilded by the Mysterious Necromancer (and the player in AQW, if bought) is purple.


See also

  • List of colors
    List of colors

    The following is a complete list of colors with associated articles. See also color names and the list of color topics.Note that a large percentage of the color swatches below are taken from computer-domain-specific naming schemes such as X11 or HTML4 ....
  • Purpure
    Purpure

    In heraldry, purpure is a tincture , more or less the equivalent of the colour "purple", and is one of the five main or most usually used colours ....
  • Violet (color)
    Violet (color)

    As the name of a color, violet is used in two senses: first, referring to the color of light at the short-wavelength end of the optical spectrum, approximately 380?420 nanometre when indigo is recognized, or more commonly 380?450 nm ....


Further reading

  • "The perception of color", from Schiffman, H.R. (1990) Sensation and perception: An integrated approach (3rd edition). New York: John Wiley & Sons.


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