page_title: Shades of purple
section_title: Purple (Munsell)
hierarchical_section_title: Shades of purple / Additional definition of purple / Purple (Munsell)
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: The color defined as purple in the Munsell color system (Munsell 5P) is shown at right. The Munsell color system is a color space that specifies colors based on three color dimensions: hue, value (lightness), and chroma (color purity), spaced uniformly in three dimensions in the elongated oval at an angle shaped Munsell color solid according to the logarithmic scale which governs human perception. In order for all the colors to be spaced uniformly, it was found necessary to use a color wheel with five primary colors—red, yellow, green, blue, and purple.
  The Munsell colors displayed are only approximate as they have been adjusted to fit into the sRGB gamut.
caption: a similar shade to the cloth.
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