60 Color names for "Shades Of Violet"

The source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #18-3838 TPX—Ultra Violet. Ultra Violet was named as Pantone's Color of the Year for 2018.

The tertiary color on the HSV color wheel (also known as the RGB color wheel) precisely halfway between blue and magenta is called color wheel violet. This tone of violet—an approximation of the color violet at about 417 nanometers as plotted on the CIE chromaticity diagram—is shown in the color obx. This tone of violet is actually somewhat toward indigo assuming indigo is accepted as a separate spectrum color, usually quoted as having a range of from about 420 to 450 nanometers. Another name for this color is near violet.

Violet red is a bright tone of red-violet and has been part of the Crayola color collection since 1958.

Vivid violet is a color approximately equivalent to the violet seen at the extreme edge of human visual perception. On the CIE chromaticity diagram, it corresponds to a visual stimulus of approximately 380 nm on the spectrum, and it is also known as extreme violet.

Red-violet or pigment purple (pigment red-violet) represents the way the color purple (red-violet) was normally reproduced in pigments, paints, or colored pencils in the 1950s on an old-fashioned RYB color wheel. The normalized color coordinates for red-violet are identical to medium violet red, which was first recorded as a color name in English with the formalization of the X11 color names over 1985–1989.

The first recorded use of Russian violet as a color name in English was in 1926.

The web color dark violet which is equivalent to pigment violet, i.e., the color violet as it would typically be reproduced by artist's paints, colored pencils, or crayons as opposed to the brighter "electric" violet that it is possible to reproduce on a computer screen.

Electric violet is the closest approximation to middle spectrum violet that can be made on a computer screen, given the limitations of the sRGB color gamut. It is an approximation of the color violet at about 400 nanometers as plotted on the CIE chromaticity diagram, in the middle of the violet range of from 380 nanometers to 420 nanometers, assuming indigo as a separate spectrum color from 420 to 450 nanometers. Other names for this color are middle violet or simply violet.

French violet is the tone of violet that is called violet in the Pourpre.com color list, a color list widely popular in France.

Pixie Powder is a vibrant, shimmery blue color.

"Popstar" is one of the colors on the Resene Color List. It was formulated in 2006.

Violet is the seventh color of the rainbow--it is the color on the inner edge of the rainbow. Violet is the color between blue and purple. The name of the color comes from the violet, which is a small flower grown in most parts of the world. The first written use of violet as a color name in English was in 1370.

The first recorded use of "flirt" as a color name in English was in 1928. In 2001, "flirt" was included as one of the colors on the Xona Color List.

Ultra Violet is the color that was chosen as the "2018 Pantone color of the year" by the Pantone Color Institute.

The web color "Blue-Violet" is shown, which is an intermediate shade between electric indigo and pigment indigo. It is also known as "Deep Indigo."

Medium red-violet is the medium tone of the color red-violet that is called "red-violet" in Crayola crayons. It has been a Crayola color since 1930.

Violet-red (PerBang) is the bright color of red-violet.

Spanish violet is the color that is called Violeta (the Spanish word for "violet") in the Guía de coloraciones (Guide to colorations) by Rosa Gallego and Juan Carlos Sanz, a color dictionary published in 2005 that is widely popular in the Hispanophone realm.

Soap is a color formulated by Crayola in 1994 as one of the colors in its Magic Scent specialty box of colors. This color is a representation of soap scented with lavender, one of the most popular scents for soap.

The color royal purple is a tone of purple that is bluer than the ancient Tyrian purple. The first recorded use of royal purple as a color name in English was in 1661. In 1990, royal purple was formulated as one of the Crayola crayon colors.

Grape is a color that is a representation of the color of grapes. It is currently unknown when grape was first used as a color name in English, but in 1994, "grape" was made into one of the Crayola Magic Scent crayon colors.

For printed material, purple (Pantone #268+) is the official school color of Kansas State University. Traditionally, the school has referred to this darker and bluer shade as Royal Purple. For the web, #512888 is the official color, even though that hex triplet is not a direct conversion from Pantone 268+.

Northwestern Purple is the official color of Northwestern University. Additionally, there are shades and tints that are variations of the base color. Northwestern Purple is a custom ink color and can no longer be referenced by a Pantone number.

Violet is a color term derived from the flower of the same name. There are numerous variations of the color violet. The so-called web color "violet" is in actuality not really a tint of violet, a spectral color, but is a non-spectral color. The web color violet is actually a rather pale tint of magenta because it has equal amounts of red and blue (the definition of magenta for computer display), and some of the green primary mixed in, unlike most other variants of violet that are closer to blue. This same color appears as "violet" in the X11 color names.

Pale red-violet, identical to the web color "pale violet red," is a pale tone of red-violet.

The color amethyst is a moderate, transparent violet. Its name is derived from the stone amethyst, a form of quartz. Amethyst is the birthstone for those born in February. The first recorded use of amethyst as a color name in English was in 1572. Though the color of natural amethyst varies from purple to yellow, the amethyst color referred to here is the moderate purple color most commonly associated with amethyst stones. There is disagreement as to the cause of the purple color of the amethyst stone. Some believe that the color is due to the presence of manganese, while others have suggested that the amethyst color could be from ferric thiocyanate or sulfur found in amethyst stones.

'Tropical Indigo' is the color that is called añil in the Guía de coloraciones (Guide to colorations) by Rosa Gallego and Juan Carlos Sanz, a color dictionary published in 2005 that is widely popular in the Hispanophone realm.

The first recorded use of "blush" as a color name in English was in 1590. "Blush" has been a Crayola color since 1998. It was originally called "cranberry", until 2005.

"Smitten" is one of the colors on the Resene Color List, a color list widely popular in Australia and New Zealand. The color was formulated in 2011.

The source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #16-3250 TPX—African Violet.

Jazzberry color, a deep shade of red-violet, was formulated by Crayola in 2003.

The pale tint of lavender is shown as lavender in sample 209 of the ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names.

The color name "kobi" for this light tone of red-violet has been in use since 2001, when it was promulgated as one of the colors on the Xona Color List.

The color purple, as defined in the X11 color names in 1987, is brighter and bluer than the HTML/CSS web color purple. This is one of the very few clashes between web and X11 colors. This color can be called X11 purple. The traditional name for this tone of purple is veronica. The first recorded use of veronica as a color name in English was in 1919.

Medium Slate Blue is a medium shade of blue with subtle violet undertones, combining the calmness of blue and the warmth of purple. It was added to the X11 color system in 1999.

The source of pink lavender is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #14-3207 TPX—Pink Lavender.

Pale lilac is the color represented as lilac in the ISCC-NBS color list. The source of this color is sample 209 in the ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955).

Red-purple is the color that is called Rojo-Purpura (the Spanish word for "red-purple") in the Guía de coloraciones (Guide to colorations) by Rosa Gallego and Juan Carlos Sanz, a color dictionary published in 2005 that is widely popular in the Hispanophone realm. Although "red-purple" is a seldom-used color name in English, in Spanish it is regarded as one of the major tones of purple.

The color purple mountain majesty, a Crayola color since 1993, can be described as a medium lavender gray. Before 1958, this color was known as lavender in Crayola crayons, but Crayola later renamed it to lavender pink. As a result, this color is sometimes referred to as lavender purple. It represents the appearance of distant mountains.

The web color medium purple is a medium shade of the bright X11 purple.

Indigo is a shade of blue, more specifically, purplish blue or dark blue. Isaac Newton named and defined indigo as a spectrum color when he divided up the spectrum into the seven colors of the rainbow. The name of the color indigo originally came from the indigo plant culitvated in India. Indigo is a dye made from the indigo plant, used to dye cloth. Indigo dye also is used to dye denim cloth, which is used to make what are called blue jeans. The Ancient Greek language word for the dye is indikon. The Romans used the term indicum, which passed into Italian dialect and eventually into English as the word indigo.

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 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".

Very Peri is the color that was chosen as the "2022 Pantone color of the year" by the Pantone Color Institute.

Web safe Indigo color is mentioned on Wikipedia article as variation of Indigo.

Majorelle Blue is a clear, intense, fresh shade of blue. In 1924, the French artist Jacques Majorelle constructed his largest art work, the Majorelle Garden in Marrakech, Morocco, and painted the garden walls, fountains, features and villa this very intense shade of blue, for which he trademarked the name Majorelle Blue. He had noticed the colour in Moroccan tiles, in Berber burnouses, and around the windows of buildings such as kasbahs and native adobe homes.

The first recorded use of fandango as a color name in English was in 1925.

The color wine or bordeaux, vinous, vinaceous, is a dark shade of red.It is a representation of the typical color of red wine. The first recorded use of wine as a color name in English was in 1705. The term "bordeaux" is also sometimes used to describe this color.

The color king blue is a variant of sapphire with a violet tone.