Red-violet

A red-violet postage stamp

Red-violet
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#C71585
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(199, 21, 133)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(322°, 89%, 78%)
Source		X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Red-violet is a rich color of high medium saturation about 3/4 of the way between red and magenta, closer to magenta than to red. It is classified in color theory as one of the purple colors—a non-spectral color between red and violet. Both its saturation and brightness falling short of 100 %, red-violet is not a pure chroma. There is a color of similar hue that, however, that comes close to being a pure chroma: process magenta. The pure chroma color composed of equal parts of magenta and red is called rose.

In the usage of artists, red-violet is equivalent to purple. However, although the color "purple" is inaccurately used by many people as a synonym for violet or a color close to violet, professional artists generally use the term "purple" to specifically refer to a pigment color that is equivalent to red-violet in order to give themselves a larger and more balanced palette of pigments to work with.^{[citation needed]}

The Munsell color system also refers to red-violet as purple; actually in the Munsell color system, this color at the maximum chroma of 12 is called Red-Purple. This convention is for chromatic purposes, since Red-Purple lies between violet and printer's magenta (the color regarded as magenta before the invention of the color electric magenta for computer displays).^{[citation needed]}

Relationship of red-violet to other colors

Red-violet is part of the red "analogous color group", which also includes magenta, red, red-orange, orange, gold, and yellow, i.e. those colors classified as "Warm colors", or colors that produces a feeling of warmth (as opposed to "cool colors").

The color that is the complement of red-violet, mint green, lies halfway between green and spring green. It is very close to sea green, but highly saturated, and of a bright hue.

In some traditional usage, red-violet is the name given to an intermediate or tertiary color that, along with yellow-orange (gold) and also green-blue (cyan), forms a color wheel triad group. However, most contemporary usage would use magenta as the name for the tertiary color in question.^{[citation needed]}

Red-violet

(Pigment purple (pigment red-violet) (web color medium violet red))

Red-violet
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#C71585
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(199, 21, 133)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(322°, 89%, 78%)
Source		X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Red-violet or pigment purple (pigment red-violet) represents the way the color purple (red-violet) was normally reproduced in pigments, paints, or colored pencils in the 1950s on an old-fashioned RYB color wheel. This color is displayed at right and is identical to the web color medium violet red.

By the 1970s, because of the advent of psychedelic art, artists became used to brighter pigments, and pigments called "Purple" or "Red-Violet" that are the pigment equivalent of the electric purple reproduced in the section below became available in artists pigments and colored pencils. Reproducing the electric purple below in pigment requires adding some white pigment to red-violet pigment.

Variations of red-violet

Pale red-violet (web color pale violet red)

Pale red-violet
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#DB7093
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(219, 112, 147)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(322°, 69%, 88%)
Source		X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

The color pale red-violet (identical to the web color pale violet red) is displayed at right.

This color is a pale shade of red-violet.

Medium red-violet (Crayola red-violet)

Red-Violet (Crayola)
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#BB3385
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(187, 51, 133)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(322°, 79%, 83%)
Source		Crayola
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

This is the medium tone of the color red-violet that is called red-violet in Crayola crayons.

Jazzberry jam

Jazzberry Jam
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#A50B5E
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(165, 11, 94)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(322°, 90%, 47%)
Source		Crayola
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

The color jazzberry jam is displayed at right.

This color, a deep shade of red-violet, was formulated by Crayola crayons in 2003.

Eggplant

Main article: Eggplant (color)

Eggplant
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#614051
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(97, 64, 81)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(320°, 100%, 50%)
Source		Crayola
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Eggplant is a dark purple or brownish-purple color that resembles the color of the outer skin of European eggplants. Another name for the color eggplant is aubergine (the French and English UK word for eggplant).

The dark grayish-red-violet color shown in the color box as eggplant was introduced by Crayola in 1998.

See also

• List of colors