Are violet and purple the same color?

Answer 1

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The term purple in its widest sense refers to a wide variety of shades of color occurring between blue and red, this color is sometimes confused with violet.

Purple is also used in a more specialized and restricted sense by chromaticians (color scientists) to indicate those colors between violet and red which are not spectral colors but mixtures of red and blue light. These colors are those colors which are along what is called the purple boundary (a straight line between violet and red) on the CIE chromaticity diagram.

In an even more restricted sense, the term purple is used to describe the color between violet and magenta on the color wheel (this color, electric purple is shown below) and its light or dark shades.

The term purple may also be used specifically to describe one of the specific shades of purple displayed below: The color violet (an important color between blue and red); the various colors regarded as the standard for purple over historical time: imperial purple, royal purple, generic purple, artist's purple and electric purple; the computer web color purples, purple (HTML/CSS color) and purple (X11 color); or other variations on the color purple such as psychedelic purple, pansy purple, aubergine and Tokyo purple.

Answer 2

Violet is a type of purple

Answer 3

Not really, Violet is a more bright shade of purple...

Answer 4

yes only violet is a darker purple

Answer 5

Purple is redder than violet. Violet is bluer than purple.

Answer 6

Purple is between blue and red. Violet is between blue and purple; ie. violet is more blue, purple is more red

Answer 7

Violet has bluish tinge while purple has pinkish tinge.

Answer 8

Lazer is right...It is a lighter shade of purple leaning towards either pink or blue shades.......

Answer 9

For all practical purposes, yes.

Answer 10

Interesting question indeed!

Kindly click on the links below and decide it yourself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_%28color%29#See_also

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavender_%28color%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colors

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Shades_of_violet