The word 'purple' comes from the Old English word purpul which derives from the Latin purpura. The most famous purple dye in the ancient world was Tyrian purple, made from a type of sea snail called the murex, found around the Mediterranean.
Purple, unlike violet, is not one of the colors of the visible spectrum. It was not one of the colors of the rainbow identified by Isaac Newton, and it does not have its own wavelength of light. For this reason it is called a non-spectral color. It exists in culture and art, but not, in the same way that violet does, in optics. It is simply a combination, in various proportions, of two primary colors, red and blue.
For those who do not know; purple is the color most often associated with the artificial and the unconventional. It is the major color that occurs the least frequently in nature, and was the first color to be synthesized. Han purple; was the first synthetic purple pigment, invented in China in about 700 B.C.
This color embodies a sense of balance, It is another shade of blue, maybe even a calmer version of red, an overlap of two vibrant worlds intertwined intelligently to form another, an illusion that has been born to deceive the eye into a whole new depth, thats why its my favorite.
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