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Learn how color is used as a symbol in various cultures and in storytelling, and how it varies across time and context. Explore the common and diverse meanings of colors such as red, blue, yellow, green, orange, black, white, and pink.
Now, with the Christmas Day opening of the second film based on Walker's 1982 book, purple takes a seat at the box office after the historic popularity of “Barbie” and all things pink.
Learn about the history, variations and meanings of the color purple, from ancient dyes to modern web colors. Compare different shades of purple, such as Tyrian purple, royal purple, mauve and lavender.
Purple is a color similar to violet light, created by mixing red and blue pigments or light. It has long been associated with royalty, luxury, mystery and spirituality, and has a rich history of production, use and meaning in art, fashion and religion.
Learn how Chinese culture attaches values to colors, such as auspicious or inauspicious, and how they correspond to the five elements and directions. Explore the history and symbolism of yellow, black, white, red, and other colors in Chinese mythology, art, and religion.
Born in the purple is a phrase that refers to royal or prominent children born during their parents' reign. The term comes from the Byzantine Empire, where it was associated with the imperial color purple and the porphyry stone used in the palace.
Berlin and Kay identified eleven possible basic color categories: white, black, red, green, yellow, blue, brown, purple, pink, orange, and gray. To be considered a basic color category, the term for the color in each language had to meet certain criteria: It is monolexemic (for example, red, not red-yellow or yellow-red.)
Codex Argenteus is a 6th-century illuminated manuscript of the Gothic Bible, written in gold and silver ink on purple vellum. It was probably made for the Ostrogothic king Theodoric the Great and is now in Uppsala University Library.