Artists consider purple and red-violet to be the same, providing a wider palette of shades, and allowing for a broad range of red tinted and blue tinted hues. Pigment purple is the traditional purple, found in paints dating back to the 1950s. There are many variations of the artists' color purple including Orchid, a light purple, Heliotrope, a bright pinkish purple and Mulberry, a color named for mulberry jam dating back to 1776. Psychedelic purple is a mix of fluorescent and blue pigment and magenta. Jazzberry Jam is a dark red-violet color. In 1998 Crayola introduced the color Eggplant, a dark purple brownish, similar to the color of an eggplant. Electric purple is exactly halfway between magenta and violet on an artists' color wheel. This the color most artists would define as purple, and it is also a computer screens' brightest purple.
Artists consider purple and red-violet to be the same, providing a wider palette of shades, and allowing for a broad range of red tinted and blue tinted hues. Pigment purple is the traditional purple, found in paints dating back to the 1950s. There are many variations of the artists' color purple including Orchid, a light purple, Heliotrope, a bright pinkish purple and Mulberry, a color named for mulberry jam dating back to 1776. Psychedelic purple is a mix of fluorescent and blue pigment and magenta. Jazzberry Jam is a dark red-violet color. In 1998 Crayola introduced the color Eggplant, a dark purple brownish, similar to the color of an eggplant. Electric purple is exactly halfway between magenta and violet on an artists' color wheel. This the color most artists would define as purple, and it is also a computer screens' brightest purple.