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Pansy Purple
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #78184A
B (r, g, b) (120, 24, 74)
HSV (h, s, v) (287°, 36%, 27%)
Source ISCC-NBS
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

 

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The pansy flower has varieties that exhibit three different colors: pansy (a deep shade of violet), pansy pink, and pansy purple.

 

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The first recorded use of Pansy Purple as a color name in English was in 1814.[10]

 

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Tokyo Purple

 

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Tokyo Purple
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #5A004A
B (r, g, b) (90, 0, 70)
HSV (h, s, v) (283°, 37%, 25%)
Source Vexillological
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

 

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Tokyo purple is the color of the flag of the prefecture of Tokyo in the Kantō region of Japan.

 

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This shade of dark purple has been associated with Tokyo (formerly called Edo) since ancient times. [11]

 

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Purple in nature

 

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Plants

 

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Purple needlegrass is the state grass of California.

 

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Animals

 

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The purple frog is a new species of amphibian discovered in India in 2003.

 

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Purple in human culture

 

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[edit] Anti-Apartheid Movement

 

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The Purple Rain Protest was a protest against apartheid that took place in Cape Town, South Africa on 2 September 1989, in which a police water cannon with purple dye sprayed thousands of demonstrators.

 

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This led to the slogan The purple shall govern.

 

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Astronomy

 

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One of the stars in the Pleiades, called Pleione, is sometimes called Purple Pleione because, being a fast spinning star, it has a purple hue caused by its blue-white color being obscured by a spinning ring of electrically excited red hydrogen gas.[12]