76 Color names for "Shades Of Purple"

The color razzle dazzle rose is a vivid tone of rose tending toward magenta. The color razzle dazzle rose was named by Crayola in 1990. Before that, from its formulation in 1972 to 1990, it had been named hot magenta.

The deep tone of mauve is referred to as mauve by Pourpre.com, a color list that is widely popular in France.

The source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #18-2436 TPX—Fuchsia Purple.

Plum is a color in the Crayola crayon lineup, introduced in 1958 and still in use today. It is characterized as a deep reddish-purple shade that resembles the color of plum fruit.

Fuchsia is a vivid pinkish-purplish-red color, named after the color of the flower of the fuchsia plant, which was named by a French botanist, Charles Plumier, after the 16th-century German botanist Leonhart Fuchs. The first recorded use of fuchsia as a color name in English was in 1892. In the system of additive colors, the RGB color model used to create all the colors on a computer or television display, the colors magenta and fuchsia are exactly the same, and have the same hex number, #FF00FF. The name fuchsia is used on the HTML web color list for this color, while the name magenta is used on the X11 web color list. They are both composed the same way, by combining an equal amount of blue and red light at full brightness.

Languid lavender is sourced from the Plochere Color System, which was formulated in 1948 and is widely used by interior designers.

This color is a representation of the color of purple amaranth flowers. The first recorded use of amaranth purple as a color name in English was in 1912.

Dark Byzantium is a rich, dark shade of purple with blue and gray undertones.

Dark magenta is a deep, rich shade of magenta, leaning towards purple.

The first recorded use of antique fuchsia as a color name in English was in 1928. The source of this color is the Plochere Color System, a color system formulated in 1948 that is widely used by interior designers.

Rose pink is a reddish purple color. The first recorded use of rose pink as a color name in English was in 1760.

Amaranth deep purple is the tone of amaranth that is called amaranth in the 1930 book by Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color.

The first recorded use of English violet as a color name in English was in 1928.

The first recorded use of Chinese violet as a color name in English was in 1912. The source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #18-3418 TPX—Chinese Violet.

The color bright lilac, labeled as lilac by Crayola, was introduced in 1994 as part of the Magic Scent specialty box of colors.

Dark orchid is a vibrant shade of purple with a hint of pink.

Palatinate is a color (a pale shade of violet) associated with the University of Durham (and with Newcastle University Medical School, this being the former medical school of Durham University.) A separate color, 'Palatinate Blue', is derived from the Coat of Arms of County Durham. The name 'Palatinate' in both instances alludes to the historic status of Durham as a County Palatine.

The color Japanese violet or Sumire is shown in color box. This is the color called "violet" in the traditional Japanese colors group, a group of colors in use since beginning in 660 CE in the form of various dyes that are used in designing kimono. The name of this color in Japanese is sumire-iro, meaning "violet color".

Orchid is a bright rich purple color that resembles the color which various orchids often exhibit. Various tones of orchid may range from grayish purple to purplish-pink to strong reddish purple. The first recorded use of orchid as a color name in English was in 1915. In 1987, orchid was included as one of the X11 colors.After the invention of the World Wide Web in 1991, these became known as the X11 web colors.

Mauve (mohv, mawv) is a pale purple color named after the mallow flower (French: mauve). The first use of the word mauve as a color was in 1796–98 according to the Oxford English Dictionary, but its use seems to have been rare before 1859. Another name for the color is mallow, with the first recorded use of mallow as a color name in English in 1611. Mauve contains more gray and more blue than a pale tint of magenta. Many pale wildflowers called "blue" are more accurately classified as mauve.Mauve is also sometimes described as pale violet.

There is a grayish shade of magenta that is called rose quartz. The first recorded use of rose quartz as a color name in English was in 1926.

Maroon is a brownish crimson color that takes its name from the French word marron, or chestnut. "Marron" is also one of the French translations for "brown". According to multiple dictionaries, there are variabilities in defining the color maroon. The Cambridge English Dictionary defines maroon as a dark reddish-purple color while its "American Dictionary" section defines maroon as dark brown-red. This suggests slight perceptual differences in the U.K. versus North America. Lexico online dictionary defines maroon as a brownish-red. Similarly, Dictionary.com defines maroon as a dark brownish-red. The Oxford English Dictionary describes maroon as "a brownish crimson (strong red) or claret (purple color) color," while the Merriam-Webster online dictionary simply defines it as a dark red.

The color pale plum is the light tone of plum, which is recognized as the web color called plum. This color is paler than the color of an actual plum.

"Tyrian purple" is the contemporary English name of the color that in Latin is denominated "purpura". Other contemporary English names for purpura are "imperial purple" and "royal purple". The English name "purple" itself originally denominated the specific color purpura. Purpura is the color of a dye extracted from a mollusk found on the shores of the city of Tyre in ancient Phoenicia (contemporarily in Lebanon), which color in classical antiquity was a symbol of royalty and political authority because only the very wealthy could afford it, including the Roman Emperors. Therefore, Tyrian purple was also denominated "imperial purple".

This color is a representation of the color of mulberry jam or pie. This was a Crayola crayon color from 1958 to 2003. The first recorded use of mulberry as a color name in English was in 1776. It has some similarities with the color raspberry, a shade of red also called mulberry in some countries of Latin America. General Motors Holden released a model in the color Mulberry. It was the 1979 SL/E Statesman. Prismacolor also made a pencil after the color mulberry which was number 995

This color was formulated for use in interior design, where a medium dark violet color is desired. The first recorded use of French lilac as a color name in the English language was in 1814. The normalized color coordinates for french lilac are identical to pomp and power, first recorded as a color name in English in 1950.