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Everything about Purple totally explained
Purple is a general term for the range of shades of color occurring between red and blue. It is formed (in both subtractive pigment and additive light combinations) by mixing the primary colors 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 disagreement over exactly which shades can be described as purple, some people preferring more precise terms such as magenta or heliotrope for particular shades. A difference in retinal sensitivity to red and blue light between individuals can cause further disagreement.
Purple is sometimes confused with the more narrowly-defined spectral color violet.
In color theory a 'purple' is defined as any non- spectral color between violet and red.
In art, purple is the color on the color wheel between magenta and violet and its tints and shades. This color, electric purple, is shown below.
In human color psychology, purple is associated with royalty, regalness, and nobility (stemming from its use in heraldry to denote gentry).
Etymology and definitions
The word 'purple' comes from the Old English word purpul which originates from the Latin purpura. This in turn is derived from the Koine Greek πορφύρα ( porphyra), name of the dye manufactured in Classical antiquity from the mucus-secretion of the hypobranchial gland of a marine snail known as the Murex brandaris or the spiny dye-murex.
The first recorded use of the word 'purple' in English was in the year AD 975.
The color regarded as the standard for purple has changed over the years, from Tyrian Purple in ancient times to Electric Purple today.
Purple versus violet
This purple used in HTML and CSS actually is deeper and has a more reddish hue (#800080) than the X11 color purple shown below as purple (X11 color) (#A020F0), which is bluer and brighter.
This color may be called HTML/CSS purple.
Purple in nature
The purple frog is a new species of amphibian discovered in India in 2003.
Purple in human culture
The Purple Rain Protest was a protest against apartheid that took place in Cape Town, South Africa on 2 September 1989, in which a police water cannon with purple dye sprayed thousands of demonstrators. This led to the slogan The purple shall govern.
One of the stars in the Pleiades, called Pleione, 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 gas.
Purple is the color of the ball in Snooker Plus with a 10-point value.
Purple is associated with Saturday on the Thai solar calendar. Anyone may wear purple on Saturdays and anyone born on a Saturday may adopt purple as their color.
The Purple Onion is a celebrated comedy club in the North Beach area of San Francisco, California.
The Purple Moon Dance Project is a dance group in San Francisco.
Porpora, or purpure, wasn't one of the usual tinctures in European heraldry, 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 of the Kingdom of León: argent, a lion purpure, as early as 1245.
Byzantine empresses gave birth in the Purple Chamber 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, the Chinese name of the Forbidden City literally means "purple forbidden city" 紫禁城 with first character 紫 meaning purple (even though the Chinese Emperor himself wore yellow, which was considered in China to be the imperial color).
The purple triangle was a Nazi concentration camp badge used by the Nazis to identify several un-orthodox non-conformist religious groups known as Bibelforscher, mostly Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple, said, "Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender."
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).
In April 2007 it was suggested that early archaea may have used retinal, a purple pigment, instead of chlorophyll, to extract energy from the sun. If so, large areas of the ocean and shoreline would have been colored purple; this is called the Purple Earth theory.
In the United States and United Kingdom militaries, purple refers to programs or assignments that are "joint", i. e., that are not confined to a single service such as the Army or Navy, but apply to the entire defense establishment. Assignment to one or more joint billets is required for promotion to flag rank (Rear Admiral and higher) in the U.S. Navy. 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).
During and before World War II, the Japanese used a code known as PURPLE or the Purple Code. The Allies' military successes in the Pacific theater depended on the fact that the Japanese didn't know that Allied cryptographers had broken the code.
The Purple Heart is a United States military decoration awarded in the name of the President of the United States to those who have been wounded or killed while serving on or after 5 April 1917 with the U.S. military.
Start Wearing Purple is a song by gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello.
Deep Purple is a rock band.
"Deep Purple" (song) is also the name of a popular song that was the favorite song of Babe Ruth.
"Purple People Eater" was one of the biggest rock and roll hits of 1958.
"Purple Haze" is one of the most popular songs by Jimi Hendrix.
Purple is the favorite color of the pop celebrity Prince. His 1984 film and album Purple Rain is one of his best known works. The title track is Prince's signature song and is nearly always played in concert to this day. Prince encourages his fans to wear purple to his concerts.
Purple Ribbon Records is a hip-hop record label owned by rapper Big Boi of the rap duo Outkast. 2005 saw the release of the mixtape Got Purp? Vol 2 featuring the Purple Ribbon All-Stars and other artists on the label.
Purple is a 1994 album by the band Stone Temple Pilots.
Purple Music, Inc is a company in Switzerland that produces house music.
The New Riders of the Purple Sage is an American country rock band. The group emerged from the psychedelic rock scene in San Francisco in 1969, and its original lineup included members of the Grateful Dead.
Purple was Frank Zappa's favorite color.
There is a winemaker in the Napa Valley of Northern California named Alex Cose who is with a company called the Purple Wine Co. that specializes in the production of wines for restaurants that's poured by the glass.
People with purple auras are said to have a love of ritual and ceremony.
In politics in the Netherlands, purple (Paars in Dutch) means a government coalition of right-liberals and socialists (symbolized by blue and red, respectively), as opposed to the more common coalitions of the Christian center-party with one of the other two. From 1994 to 2002 there have been two purple cabinets.
In United States politics, a purple state is a state equally balanced between Republicans (normally symbolized by red) and Democrats (normally symbolized as blue)(See red states and blue states).
In British politics, purple is used to represent the United Kingdom Independence Party, a eurosceptic party wanting to pull Britain out of the European Union
Robert Burns 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.
In the song Grace Kelly by Mika the word purple is rhymed with "hurtful".
In his hit song "Dang Me," Roger Miller sings these lines:
Roses are red, violets are purple
Sugar is sweet and so is maple surple [sic]
In the Byzantine Empire, Gospel manuscripts were written in gold lettering on parchment that was colored Tyrian purple.
In the Star Trek universe, Klingons have purple blood.
In the Star Wars universe, Jedi Master Mace Windu has a purple lightsaber.
At the 24 June 2007 San Francisco Gay Pride Parade, 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 background that said Out, Proud, and Purple.
The Purple Party is a gay circuit party that has taken place on the third weekend in April in Dallas, Texas since 2001. It is produced by the Purple Foundation to benefit gay charities.
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.
The NBA's Los Angeles Lakers, Phoenix Suns and Sacramento Kings use purple as their primary color, though the former call purple as "Forum Blue", in reference to their old arena The Forum. For a time, the Milwaukee Bucks, Toronto Raptors and Utah Jazz use purple, but have since abandoned. In baseball, purple is one of the primary colors for the Colorado Rockies. In the National Football League, the Minnesota Vikings and Baltimore Ravens use purple as main colors.
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