Red-violet is a rich color of high medium saturation about 3/4 of the way between red and magenta closer to magenta than to red. It is classified in color theory as one of the purple colors—a non-spectral color between red and violet that is a deep version of a color on the line of purples on the CIE chromaticity diagram. Both its saturation and brightness falling short of 100% red-violet is not a pure chroma.
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