I like purple. It is a color intermediate between blue and red. 
That is actually my favorite color, dark purple just feels so elite and royal!
first recorded use of "purple" as a color name in English was in 975 AD.
Historical development of purple.
Historical development of purple Tyrian purple: Classical antiquity.
"See also under Purple#In art and history the section "In prehistory and the ancient world: Tyrian purple" "
"Tyrian purple" is the contemporary English name of the color that in Latin is denominated ""purpura"". Other contemporary English names for "purpura" are "imperial purple" and "royal purple".
in its pure form is, as the name suggests, blue.
Han purple in its pure form is actually a dark blue, that is close to electric indigo. It is a purple in the way the term is used in colloquial English, i.e., it is a color between red and blue. It is not, however, a purple in the way the term is used in color theory, i.e. a nonspectral color between red and violet on the 'line of purples' on the CIE chromaticity diagram. Perhaps