page_title: Shades of purple
section_title: Mauve
hierarchical_section_title: Shades of purple / Additional variations / Mauve
context_page_description: There are numerous variations of the color purple, a sampling of which are shown below.
  In common English usage, purple is a range of hues of color occurring between red and blue.
  In color theory, purple colors are any colors on the line of purples on the CIE chromaticity diagram, i.e., any color between red and violet, not including either red or violet themselves.
  The first recorded use of purple as a color name in English was in 975 AD.
context_section_description: Mauve /ˈmoʊv/ (listen) (rhymes with "grove"; from the French form of Malva "mallow") is a pale purple. Mauve is named after the mallow flower. Another name for the color is mallow with the first recorded use of mallow as a color name in English in 1611.
caption: Mallow wildflower
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