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  2. Purple - Wikipedia

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    The standard HTML color purple is created by red and blue light of equal intensity, at a brightness that is halfway between full power and darkness. In color printing, purple is sometimes represented by the color magenta, or sometimes by mixing magenta with red or blue. It can also be created by mixing just red and blue alone, but in that case ...

  3. Shades of purple - Wikipedia

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    The pure essence of purple was approximated in pigment in the late 1960s by mixing fluorescent magenta and fluorescent blue pigments together to make fluorescent purple to use in psychedelic black light paintings. This tone of purple was very popular among hippies and was the favorite color of Jimi Hendrix.

  4. Secondary color - Wikipedia

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    Primary colors of the RYB color model: red, yellow, and blue, mixed to form colors orange, green, and purple. Under the modern definition (as even combinations of a primary and a secondary color), tertiary colors are typically named by combining the names of the adjacent primary and secondary color.

  5. Violet (color) - Wikipedia

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    In optics, violet is a spectral color: It refers to the color of any different single wavelength of light on the short wavelength end of the visible spectrum (between approximately 380 and 435 nanometers), [16] [17] whereas purple is the color of various combinations of red, blue and violet light, [5] [6] some of which some humans perceive as ...

  6. Color mixing - Wikipedia

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    For all additive color models, the absence of all primaries results in black. For practical additive color models, an equal superposition of all primaries results in neutral (gray or white). In the RGB model, an equal mixture of red and green is yellow, an equal mixture of green and blue is cyan and an equal mixture of blue and red is magenta ...

  7. Shades of violet - Wikipedia

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    The blue-dominated spectral color beyond blue is referred to as purple by many speakers in the United States, but this color is called violet by many speakers in the United Kingdom. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In some British authoritative texts the term purple refers to any mixture of red and blue, suggesting the color term purple covers the full range ...

  8. Yes, NC beekeepers have purple (and blue) honey - AOL

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    What makes purple honey purple (or blue)? ... • Kudzu: These Japanese flowers (abundant in North Carolina) are purple, and some have claimed the color comes from the noxious invasive nectar ...

  9. Periwinkle (color) - Wikipedia

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    Periwinkle blue is the color for esophageal and stomach cancer awareness ribbons, and for anorexia nervosa and bulimia. It is also the color for pulmonary hypertension awareness ribbons. [citation needed] Periwinkle was added to the Crayola palette in 1949. [6] In the late 1990s, the Anaheim Angels changed their uniform to include this color. [7]