I love the color purple. What is your favorite color?
My favorite color is Blue! Purple is actually a color intermediate between blue and red
That's cool! What else can you tell me about the color purple?
it's funny because people often confuse violet with purple. but violet is a spectral color with its own wavelength and purple is just a combination of blue and red
I didn't realize this. I always associated the two colors as well. So what exactly makes violet a spectral color and what does this mean?
a spectral color is a color that evoked in a normal human by a single wavelight of light in the visible spectru,
And so violet is simply a combination of two spectral colors? Nature is amazing! What else can you tell me about purple or violet?
purple is the color most often assosiated with royalty, magic, mystery and piety
Do you know why purple gained its association with royalty?
with eroticism, femininity, and seduction.
Purple was the color worn by Roman magistrates; it became the imperial color worn by the rulers of the Byzantine Empire and the Holy Roman Empire, and later by Roman Catholic bishops. Similarly in Japan, the color is traditionally associated with the emperor and aristocracy.
Etymology and definitions.
The word 'purple' comes from the Old English word "purpul" which derives from Latin "purpura", in turn from the Greek ("porphura"), name of
Purple
Purple is a color intermediate between blue and red. It is similar to violet, but unlike violet, which is a spectral color with its own wavelength on the visible spectrum of light, purple is a secondary color made by combining red and blue. The complementary color of purple in the RYB color model is yellow.
According to surveys in Europe and North America, purple is the color most often associated with rarity, royalty, magic, mystery, and piety. When combined with pink, it is associated