| Violet |
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| Wavelenth | 380–450 nm |
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| Frequency | 800–715 THz |
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 Colour coordinates |
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| Hex triplet | #8000FF |
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| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (128, 0, 255) |
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| CMYKH (c, m, y, k) | (50, 100, 0, 0) |
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| HSV (h, s, v) | (270°, 100%, 100%) |
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| Soirce | HTML Color Chart @274 |
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B: Normalised tae [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalised tae [0–100] (hunder) |
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Violet as a tertiary colour
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Violet is a skyre bluochie purpie colour that taks its name frae the violet flouer.[2] On the tradeetional colour wheel uised bi painters, it is locatit atween blue an purpie. Violet is at the heicher end o the veesible spectrum, wi a wavelenth atween thareby 380-450 nanometer.[3] Licht wi a shorter wavelength than violet but langer than X-rays an gamma rays is cried ultraviolet, an isna veesible tae the human ee.
Accordin tae surveys in Europe an the Unitit States, violet is the colour maist commonly associated wi the lovitch, the individualist, swither, the heronious, an the airtificial.[4]
- ↑ RGB approximations of RYB tertiary colors, using cubic interpolation.[1] Archived 2013-06-28 at the Wayback Machine The colors displayed here are substantially paler than the true colors a mixture of paints would produce.
- ↑ Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language, The World Publishing Company, New York, 1964.
- ↑ J. W. G. Hunt (1980). Measuring Color. Ellis Horwood Ltd. ISBN 0-7458-0125-0.
- ↑ Survey results reportit in Eva Heller (2000), Psychologie de la couleur: effets et symboliques (pp. 160–176)
