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Purple is a color similar in appearance to violet light. In the RYB color model historically used in the arts, purple is a secondary color created by combining red and blue pigments. In the CMYK color model used in modern printing, purple is made by combining magenta pigment with cyan pigment, black pigment, or both. In the RGB color model used in computer and television screens, purple is created by mixing red and blue light in order to create colors that appear similar to violet light. According to color theory, purple is considered a cool color.
“Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple;”
“And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe,”
“And then is it thought to have a most commendable and excellent die, when it is as deepe a red as bloud that is cold and setled, blackish at the first sight, but looke betweene you and the light, it carieth a bright and shining lustre. And hereupon it is, that Homer calleth bloud, Purple.”
“Weave purple for his shrunken hips! and purple for his barren loins!”
“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.”
“It's a lovely colour, purple, discretely sandwiched within the colour spectrum between blue and white.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.
Not who you're looking for? Others named purple: Japanese diplomatic code named Purple by the US · 2015 single by the New Zealand band Six60 · album by Shizuka Kudō · term for governments consisting of parties that have red and
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