Heliotrope (color)
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— Color coordinates — |
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| Hex triplet | #DF73FF | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (223, 115, 255) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (286°, 55%, 100%) |
| Source | Maerz and Paul[1] | |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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Heliotrope is a pink-purple tint that is a representation of the color of the heliotrope flower.
The first recorded use of Heliotrope as a color name in English was in 1882.[2]
[edit] Heliotrope in culture
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- Literature
- In Elizabeth Goudge's "The Little White Horse", the protagonist's governess is "Miss Heliotrope" and is frequently found wearing, or possessing objects, the color of heliotrope.
- In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the Mafalda Hopkirk Polyjuice potion is "a pleasant heliotrope colour".
- In James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, "heliotrope" is the answer to the Maggies' riddle in the game of Colours (or Angels and Devils) played by the children in Part II, Chapter 1. Throughout the chapter, the word "heliotrope" is disguised a number of times, hidden either in anagrams, riddles, puns, or obscure allusions.
- In Sarah Mlynowski's "Parties & Potions", the Samsortas wear a gown that is heliotrope in color, as the color has "magical properties that enhance natural beauty".
- Medicine
- The periorbital purplish discoloration occurring in dermatomyositis is called the "Heliotrope rash" after the color.
- Mourning customs
- Heliotrope is among the handful of "half-mourning" colors worn by Victorians during the last stage of mourning.[3]
- School colors
- State University of New York at Purchase formerly had heliotrope as one of the college's colors.
- The University of Arkansas used heliotrope as one of the school colors in the early 1900s.
- Television
- Heliotrope was a popular color reference of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, script writers of Hancock's Half Hour. In "The School Reunion" the school colors are listed as "Red, Green, Mauve and Heliotrope"; the McHancock tartan in "The Last of the McHancocks" was described as, "Puce and lemon squares on a background of heliotrope; and very racy it is too" and in "Hancock's car" the said car is "Orange and Heliotrope".
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ The color displayed in the color box above matches the color called heliotrope in the 1930 book by Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill; the color heliotrope is displayed on page 131, Plate 54, Color Sample C10.
- ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York: 1930 McGraw-Hill Page 196; Color Sample of Heliotrope: Page 131 Plate 54 Color Sample C10
- ^ Mourning Fashion:
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| Amethyst | Byzantium | Cerise | Eggplant | Fandango | Fuchsia | Heliotrope | Indigo | Lavender blush | Lavender (floral) |
| Lavender (web) | Magenta | Orchid | Plum | Purple | Red-violet | Rose | Thistle | Violet | Wisteria |
| The samples shown above are only indicative. | |||||||||
