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This red-violet color, called artist's purple by artists, is the pigment color that would be on a pigment color color wheel between pigment violet and pigment (process) magenta. In the Munsell color system, this color at the maximum chroma of 12 is called Red-Purple.

 

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Artists pigments and colored pencils labeled as purple are colored the red-violet color shown at right.

 

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Electric Purple: 2000s

 

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Electric Purple
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #BF00FF
B (r, g, b) (191, 0, 255)
HSV (h, s, v) (285°, 100%, 80%)
Source Colour Lovers
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

 

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This color, electric purple, is precisely halfway between violet and magenta and thus fits the artistic definition of purple.[8]

 

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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.

 

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The equivalent color on a computer to the pigment color red-violet shown above would be this electric purple, i.e. the much brighter purple you can see reproduced on the screen of an electronic computer.

 

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This color is pure purple conceived as computer artists conceive it, as the pure chroma on the computer screen color wheel halfway between electric violet and electric magenta.

 

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Thus, electric purple is the purest and brightest purple that it is possible to display on a computer screen.

 

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Computer web color purples

 

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Purple (HTML/CSS color)

 

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Purple (HTML/CSS color)
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #800080
sRGBB (r, g, b) (128, 0, 128 )
HSV (h, s, v) (300°, 67%, 44%)
Source HTML/CSS[1]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

 

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This purple used in HTML and CSS actually is deeper and has a more reddish hue (#800080) than the X11 color purple shown below as purple (X11 color) (#A020F0), which is bluer and brighter.

 

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This color may be called HTML/CSS purple.

 

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Purple (X11 color)

 

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Purple (X11 color)
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #A020F0
B (r, g, b) (160, 32, 240)
HSV (h, s, v) (285°, 97%, 77%)
Source X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

 

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At right is displayed the color purple, as defined in the X11 color, which is a lot brighter and bluer than the HTML purple shown above.

 

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See the chart Color names that clash between X11 and HTML/CSS in the X11 color names article to see those colors which are different in HTML and X11.

 

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This color can be called X11 purple.

 

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Medium Purple (X11)