What color is Purple?
Purple is a rich, cool color that blends red and blue into a deep, slightly dark hue, hex #9D00FF, similar in tone to a ripe plum. It has a vivid, almost electric quality that sets it apart from softer lavender shades.
What is the meaning of the color Purple?
Ancient Phoenician traders produced a purple dye from murex sea snails along the coast of Tyre, a process so costly that by the 1st century BC Roman law restricted the color to emperors and senior officials. The dye, known as Tyrian purple, required thousands of snails to produce a single gram of pigment. Synthetic purple became accessible only after William Henry Perkin accidentally created the first aniline dye, mauveine, in 1856. Cadbury adopted purple for its Dairy Milk chocolate packaging in 1914, and the color has been associated with the brand ever since.
What colors go with Purple?
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Conversions & Codes
| Format | Value | CSS |
|---|---|---|
| HEX | #9D00FF |
color: #9D00FF;
|
| RGB | 157, 0, 255 |
color: rgb(157, 0, 255);
|
| RGB Percentage | 62%, 0%, 100% |
color: rgb(62%, 0%, 100%);
|
| CMYK | 38%, 100%, 0%, 0% | Not supported in CSS |
| HSL | 277°, 100%, 50% |
color: hsl(277, 100%, 50%);
|
| HSV | 277°, 100%, 100% | Not supported in CSS |
| CIE-LAB | 40, 31, -85 |
color: lab(40% 31 -85);
|
| Decimal | 10289407 | Not supported in CSS |
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CSS & Dev Snippets
.purple {
color: #9D00FF;
}
$purple: #9D00FF;
rgb(157, 0, 255)