Red-violet
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Red-violet | ||
|---|---|---|
| — Color coordinates — | ||
| Hex triplet | #C71585 | |
| RGBa | (r, g, b) | (199, 21, 133) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (322°, 89%, 78%) |
| a: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | ||
Red-violet is a color between magenta and violet. This color is equivalent to purple, as used by artists. However, although the color "purple" is inaccurately used by many people as a synonym for violet or a color close to violet, professional artists generally use the term "purple" to specifically refer to a color that is equivalent to red-violet in order to give themselves a larger and more balanced palette to work with.
The Munsell color system also names red-violet as purple. This convention is for chromatic purposes, since it is between violet and printer's magenta, the color regarded as magenta before the invention of the color electric magenta for computer display.
Contents |
[edit] Relationship of red-violet to other colors
Red-violet is part of the red "analogous color group", which also includes magenta, red, red-orange, orange, gold, and yellow, i.e. those colors classified as "Warm colors", or colors that produces a feeling of warmth (as opposed to "cool colors").
The complementary color of red-violet (purple)is the web color known as chartreuse.
Red-violet is an intermediate or tertiary color and, along with yellow-orange (gold) and also green-blue (cyan), forms a color wheel triad group.
[edit] Variations of red-violet or purple
[edit] Pigment purple (pigment red-violet) (web color medium violet red)
| Red-violet | ||
|---|---|---|
| — Color coordinates — | ||
| Hex triplet | #C71585 | |
| RGBa | (r, g, b) | (199, 21, 133) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (322°, 89%, 78%) |
| a: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | ||
Pigment purple (pigment red-violet) represents the way the color purple (red-violet) was always reproduced in pigments, paints, or colored pencils in the 1950s. This color is displayed at right and identical to the web color medium violet red.
By the 1970s, because of the advent of psychedelic art, artists became used to brighter pigments, and pigments called "Purple" or "Red-Violet" that are the pigment equivalent of the electric purple reproduced in the section below became available in artists pigments and colored pencils. Reproducing the electric purple below in pigment requires adding some white pigment to red-violet pigment.
[edit] Electric purple (electric red-violet)
| Electric purple | ||
|---|---|---|
| — Color coordinates — | ||
| Hex triplet | #C400FF | |
| RGBa | (r, g, b) | (191, 0, 255) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (°, %, %) |
| a: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | ||
Since using computers, it is possible to create a much brighter purple than with pigment, the equivalent color on a computer to the pigment color red-violet shown above would be electric purple, i.e. the much brighter purple you can see reproduced on the screen of an electronic computer. This color is pure purple conceived as computer artists conceive it, as the pure chroma on the computer screen color wheel between electric violet and electric magenta.
[edit] Psychedelic purple
| Psychedelic purple | ||
|---|---|---|
| — Color coordinates — | ||
| Hex triplet | #DD00FF | |
| RGBa | (r, g, b) | (221, 0, 255) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (°, %, %) |
| a: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | ||
The pure essence of purple was approximated in pigment in the late 1960s by mixing fluorescent magenta and fluorescent blue pigments together to paint psychedelic black light paintings. This shade of purple was very popular among the hippies and it was the favorite color of Jimi Hendrix and therefore it is called psychedelic purple. It is shaded somewhat more toward the magenta than electric purple and it is displayed in the color box at right.
In the 1980s there was a Jimi Hendrix Museum in a Victorian house 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.
[edit] Shades of purple/red-violet color comparison chart
- Purple Mist (Hex: #F6DDFF) (RGB: 245, 221, 255)
- Purple Blush (Hex: #ECBBFF) (RGB: 236, 187, 255)
- Thistle (web color) (Hex: #D8BFD8) (RGB: 216, 191, 216)
- Lilac (Hex: #CAA2C8) (RGB: 200, 162, 200)
- Lavender Pink (Crayola Lavender) (Hex: #FBAED2) (RGB: 251, 174, 210)
- Light Orchid (Crayola Orchid) (Hex: #E29CD2) (RGB: 226, 156, 210)
- Pale Plum (web color [Pale] Plum) (Hex: #DDA0DD) (RGB: 221, 160, 221)
- Mauve (Hex: #E0B0FF) (RGB: 224, 176, 255)
- Pale Purple (Hex: #E399FF) (RGB: 227, 153, 255)
- Light Purple (Hex: #DA77FF) (RGB: 218, 119, 255)
- Orchid (web color) (Hex: #DA70D6) (RGB: 218, 112, 240) (CMYK: 0,49,2,15)
- Heliotrope (Hex: #DF73FF) (RGB: 223, 115, 255)
- Brilliant Purple (Hex: #CF55FF) (RGB: 209, 85, 255)
- Medium Orchid (web color) (Hex: #BA55D3) (RGB: 183, 85, 211)
- Bright Purple (Hex: #C733FF) (RGB: 200, 51, 255)
- Psychedelic Purple (Hex: #DD00FF) (RGB: 221, 0, 255)
- PURPLE (Electric Purple) (Hex: #C400FF) (RGB: 191, 0, 255)
- Rich Purple (X11 Purple) (Hex: #A020F0) (RGB: 160, 92, 240)
- Deep Purple (Hex: #8B00CC) (RGB: 139, 0, 204)
- Dark Purple (Hex: #68008B) (RGB: 104, 0, 139)
- Generic Purple (Vulgar Purple) (Hex: #660099) (RGB: 102, 0, 153)
- Purple Yam (Okinawan Yam) (Ube) (Hex: #8878C3) (RGB: 136, 120, 195)
- Medium Purple (web color) (Deep Lavender) (Hex: #9370DB) (RGB: 147, 112, 219)
- Deep Lilac (Hex: #9955BB) (RGB: 153, 85, 187)
- Dark Orchid (web color) (Hex: #9932CC) (RGB: 153, 50, 204)
- Deep Psychedelic Purple (Hex: #B200CC) (RGB: 178, 0, 204)
- Medium Red-Violet (Crayola Red Violet) (Hex: #BB3385) (RGB: 187, 151, 133)
- Red-Violet (Pigment Purple) (web color Medium Violet Red) (Hex: #C71585) (RGB: 199, 21, 133)
- Purple Pansy (Hex: #B12166) (RGB: 177, 33, 102)
- Jazzberry Jam (Crayola) (Hex: #A50B5E) (RGB: 165, 11, 94)
- Red-Violet Eggplant (web Eggplant) (Aubergine) (Hex: #990066) (RGB: 153, 0, 102)
- Plum (Crayola) (Hex: #843179) (RGB: 132, 49, 121)
- Violet Eggplant (Chinese Eggplant) (Hex: #991199) (RGB: 153, 17, 153)
- Purple Cabbage Purple (Hex: #870C8B) (RGB: 135, 12, 139)
- Royal Purple (web color [Royal] Purple)(HTML/CSS Purple)(Hex: #800080) (RGB: 128, 0, 128)
- Byzantium (Hex: #702963) (RGB: 112, 41, 99)
- Palatinate Purple (Hex: #682860) (RGB: 104, 40, 96) (See Palatinate Purple)
- Tokyo Purple (Japanese Imperial Purple) (Hex: #5A004A) (RGB: 90, 0, 74)
- Tyrian Purple (Imperial Purple) (Hex: #66023C) (RGB: 102, 2, 60)
- Beet Purple (Hex: #7A0822) (RGB: 122, 8, 34)
- Medium Eggplant (Crayola Eggplant) (Hex: #664051) (RGB: 97, 64, 81)
- Dark Byzantium (Hex: #5D3954) (RGB: 93, 57, 84)
- Purple Taupe (Hex: #50404D) (RGB: 80, 64, 77)
[edit] Electric purple observed on spectrum beyond violet by ultraviolet sensitives
It has been reported by ophthalmologists that those who have their retinal lenses removed and replaced with clear plastic can see into partway into the ultraviolet and view red-violet (purple) on spectrum beyond violet because it has been shown that the retina has some ultraviolet sensitivity which is normally blocked by the retinal lens. Presumably, tetrachromatic animals such as birds can also see this color on the spectrum. These observers able to see partially into the ultraviolet describe the color they can see beyond violet in the ultraviolet as a sort of lilac, that is, red-violet (purple), the color of the lilac flower. [1]
[edit] Purple (red-violet) in human culture
- See under article on purple.
[edit] See also
| Shades of violet | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amethyst | Cerise | Eggplant | Fuchsia | Heliotrope | Indigo | Lavender | Lavender blush | Lavender gray | Lavender rose | Lilac | Magenta |
| Mauve | Mountbatten pink | Orchid | Palatinate Purple | Persian indigo | Purple | Red-violet | Rose | Sangria | Thistle | Violet | Violet-eggplant |
| Wisteria | |||||||||||
| Shades of violet without swatches | |||||||||||
| Iris | Purpure | ||||||||||
