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There are numerous variations of the color purple a sampling of which are shown below.In common English usage purple is a range of hues of color occurring between red and blue.In color theory purple colors are any colors on the line of purples on the CIE chromaticity diagram (or colors that can be derived from colors on the line of purples) i.e. any color between red and violet not including either red or violet themselves.The first recorded use of purple as a color name in English was in 975.

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black coordinate in the CMYK space
50
magenta coordinate in the CMYK space
100
colour hex code
800080, 800080
connotation
Easter, Mardi Gras, Royal family, Lent, Nobility
hue coordinate in the HSV colour space
300
saturation coordinate in the HSV colour space
100
value coordinate in the HSV colour space
50
bluecoordinate in the RGB space
128
red coordinate in the RGB space
128

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