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  2. Shades of violet - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 January 2025. Varieties of the color violet Violet Spectral coordinates Wavelength 380–450 nm Frequency 800–715 THz Color coordinates Hex triplet #8000FF sRGB B (r, g, b) (128, 0, 255) HSV (h, s, v) (270°, 100%, 100%) CIELCh uv (L, C, h) (41, 134, 275°) Source W3C B: Normalized to [0–255 ...

  3. Shades of purple - Wikipedia

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    This color, electric purple, is precisely halfway between violet and magenta and thus fits the artistic definition of purple. [ 15 ] Using additive colors such as those on computer screens, it is possible to create a much brighter purple than with pigments where the mixing subtracts frequencies from the component primary colors.

  4. List of colors by shade - Wikipedia

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    Magenta is variously defined as a purplish-red, reddish-purple, or a mauvish–crimson color. On color wheels of the RGB and CMY color models, it is located midway between red and blue, opposite green. Complements of magenta are evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 500–530 nm.

  5. Color of clothing - Wikipedia

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    Color is a visual characteristic that is described by terms like red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple etc. Typically, it is the color of an object that attracts the most attention. [6] Color is one of the primary properties that is noticed when a consumer makes a decision to buy a dress.

  6. 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 ...

  7. Shades of magenta - Wikipedia

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    Humans, being trichromats, can only see as far as 380 nanometers into the spectrum, i.e., as far as violet. The hue magenta is the complement of green: magenta pigments absorb green light, thus magenta and green are opposite colors. This makes magenta an "extra-spectral color".

  8. Purple - Wikipedia

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    Purple is a color similar in appearance to violet light. In the RYB color model historically used in the arts, purple is a secondary color created by combining red and blue pigments. In the CMYK color model used in modern printing, purple is made by combining magenta pigment with either cyan pigment, black pigment, or both.

  9. Color theory - Wikipedia

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    Warm colors are often said to be hues from red through yellow, browns, and tans included; cool colors are often said to be the hues from blue-green through blue violet, most grays included. There is a historical disagreement about the colors that anchor the polarity, but 19th-century sources put the peak contrast between red-orange and greenish ...