"Purple red" redirects here. For the RAL color, see Purple red (RAL).
A red-violet used on a postage stamp
Red-violet refers to a rich color of high medium saturation about 3/4 of the way between red and magenta, closer to magenta than to red.[1] In American English, this color term is sometimes used in color theory as one of the purple colors—a non-spectral color between red and violet that is a deep version of a color on the line of purples on the CIE chromaticity diagram.[citation needed]
In use by some artists red-violet is equivalent to purple. Since violet and purple vary so much in meaning when comparing speakers from different countries and languages, there is much confusion.[2][3]
Red-violet is part of the red "analogous color group", which also includes magenta, red, red-orange, orange, gold, and yellow, i.e., those colors classified as "warm colors", or colors that produce a feeling of warmth (as opposed to "cool colors").
In some traditional usage, red-violet is the name given to an intermediate, or tertiary color that, along with yellow-orange (gold) and also green-blue (cyan), forms a color wheel triad group. Most contemporary usage, however, would list magenta as the name for the tertiary color in question.[4]
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. This color is displayed at right.
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.
By the 1970s, because of the advent of psychedelic art, artists became used to brighter pigments, and pigments called "purple" or "bright purple" that are the pigment equivalent of electric purple became available in artist's pigments and colored pencils. Reproducing electric purple in pigment requires adding some white and a small amount of blue to red-violet pigment. Even then, the reproduction will not be exact, because it is impossible for pigment colors to be so bright as colors displayed on a computer.
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.
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.
Eggplant is a dark purple[23] or purplish brown,[24] color that resembles the color of the outer skin of European eggplant.[25] Another name for the color "eggplant" is aubergine[24] (the French and British English word for eggplant).
The first recorded use of "eggplant" as a color name in English was in 1915.[26]
Eggplants, or aubergines
The dark grayish-red-violet color shown in the color box as "eggplant" was introduced by Crayola in 1998.
^The color displayed in the color box above matches the color called cerise in the 1930 book by Maerz and Paul, A Dictionary of Color, New York: 1930, McGraw-Hill; the color cerise is displayed on Page 31, Plate 4, Color Sample J6.
^Gallego, Rosa; Sanz, Juan Carlos (2005). Guía de coloraciones (Gallego, Rosa; Sanz, Juan Carlos (2005). Guide to Colorations) Madrid: H. Blume. ISBN84-89840-31-8
^Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill, p. 190; Color Sample of Blush Page 47 Plate 12 Color Sample A7
^This color matches the color called Fandango in the book by Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill--Color Sample of Fandango Page 127 Plate 52 Color Sample L 10
^Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill, p. 195; Color Sample of Fandango Page 127 Plate 52 Color Sample L 10
^Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 195
