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The imperial robes of Roman emperors were Tyrian purple trimmed in metallic gold thread.
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The badge of office of a Roman Senator was a stripe of Tyrian purple on their white toga.[6]
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Tyrian purple was continued in use by the emperors of the Eastern Roman Empire until its final collapse in 1453.
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Han Purple: Ancient China
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Main article: Han Purple
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Han Purple
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #5218FA
B (r, g, b) (82, 24, 250)
HSV (h, s, v) (260°, 97%, 47%)
Source Internet
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #5218FA
B (r, g, b) (82, 24, 250)
HSV (h, s, v) (260°, 97%, 47%)
Source Internet
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
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Han purple is a type of artificial pigment found in China between 500 B.C. and 220 A.D..
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It was used in the decoration of the Xian Terracotta Army.
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Han purple is a purple in the sense that the term is used in colloquial English, i.e., it is a color between red and blue; however, it is not a purple in the sense that the term is used in color theory, i.e. a non-spectral color between red and violet on the line of purples on the CIE chromaticity diagram.
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Royal Purple: Medieval Europe
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Royal Purple
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #6B3FA0
B (r, g, b) (107, 63, 160)
HSV (h, s, v) (273°, 62%, 54%)
Source Crayola
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #6B3FA0
B (r, g, b) (107, 63, 160)
HSV (h, s, v) (273°, 62%, 54%)
Source Crayola
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
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This shade of purple is bluer than the ancient Tyrian purple
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In medieval Europe, blue dyes were rare and expensive,[7] so only the most wealthy or the aristocracy could afford to wear them.
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(The working class wore mainly green and brown.)
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Because of this (and also because Tyrian purple had gone out of use in western Europe after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in AD 476), Europeans' idea of purple shifted towards this more bluish purple known as royal purple because of its similarity to the royal blue worn by the aristocracy.
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This was the shade of purple worn by kings in medieval Europe.[citation needed]
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Artists Pigment Purple (Red-Violet): 1930s
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Main article: Red-violet
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Medium violet red
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #C71585
B (r, g, b) (199, 21, 133)
HSV (h, s, v) (322°, 89%, 78%)
Source X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #C71585
B (r, g, b) (199, 21, 133)
HSV (h, s, v) (322°, 89%, 78%)
Source X11
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
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'Royal purple' (shown above) or the dark violet color known as vulgar purple[citation needed] is the common layman's idea of purple, but professional artists, following Munsell color system (introduced in 1905 and widely accepted by 1930), regard purple as being synonymous with the red-violet color shown at right, in order to clearly distinguish purple from violet and thus have access to a larger palette of colors[citation needed].