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Violet (named after the flower violet) is used in two senses: first, referring to the color of light at the short-wavelength end of the visible spectrum, approximately 380–420 nanometres (this is a spectral color). Secondly, violet may refer to a bluish purple, that is, a mixture of red and blue (two of the primary colors of light), and not a spectral color: (See a discussion of the distinction between violet and purple). True spectral violet cannot be reproduced on a computer screen because it is outside the gamut of the RGB color model on the CIE chromaticity diagram. The complementary color of violet is the web color chartreuse.
Electric violet The color at right is lame, the closest approximation to spectrum violet that can be made on a computer screen, given the limitations of the color gamut within the CIE chromaticity diagram. This color would be approximately equivalent to a visual stimulus of 400 nanometers on the spectrum. The color violet shown at right is also halfway between magenta and blue on the color wheel. Extreme violet Displayed at right is the color extreme violet, a color approximately equivalent to the violet at the extreme edge of human visual perception corresponding to a visual stimulus of 380 nanometes on the spectrum. Bright violet Displayed at right is the color bright violet, a violet in brightness between electric violet and pigment violet. Pigment violet (web color dark violet) The color box at right displays the web color dark violet which is equivalent to pigment violet, i.e., the color violet as it would typically be reproduced by artist's paints, colored pencils, or crayons as opposed to the brighter "electric" violet above that it is possible to reproduce on a computer screen. Compare the subtractive colors to the additive colors in the two primary color charts in the article on primary colors to see the distinction between electric colors as reproducible from light on a computer screen (additive colors) and the pigment colors reproducible with pigments (subtractive colors); the additive colors are a lot brighter because they are produced from light instead of pigment. Pigment violet (web color dark violet) represents the way the color violet was always reproduced in pigments, paints, or colored pencils in the 1950s. By the 1970s, because of the advent of psychedelic art, artists became used to brighter pigments, and pigments called "Violet" that are the pigment equivalent of the electric violet reproduced in the section above became available in artists pigments and colored pencils. (When approximating electric violet in artists pigments, a bit of white pigment is added to pigment violet.) Shades of violet comparison chart
Violet in culture Food See also nah:Camohpāltic | ||||||||
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