This is an accepted version of this page There are numerous variations of the color purple, a sampling of which is shown below.

In common English usage, purple is a range of hues of color occurring between red and blue.

[2] Many native speakers of English in the United States refer to the blue-dominated spectral color beyond blue as purple, but the same color is referred to as violet by many native English speakers in the United Kingdom.

[5] The confusion about the range of meanings of the terms violet and purple is even larger when including other languages and historical texts.

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.

The imperial robes of Roman emperors were of Tyrian purple trimmed in metallic gold thread.

The badge of office of a Roman Senator was a stripe of Tyrian purple on his white toga.

[10] Tyrian purple was continued in use by the emperors of the Eastern Roman Empire until its final collapse in 1453.

Lesser royal houses that wanted to economize could mix Tyrian purple dye with the much less expensive indigo to create a color closer to violet.

Han purple is a type of artificial pigment found in China between 500 BC and AD 220.

Chemist Sir William Henry Perkin, then eighteen, was attempting to create artificial quinine.

Perkin was so successful in recommending his discovery to the dyestuffs industry that his biography by Simon Garfield is titled Mauve.

[12] As mauveine faded easily, contemporary understanding of mauve is as a lighter, less saturated color than it was originally known.

By 1890, this color had become so pervasive in fashion that author Thomas Beer used it in the title of his book about the 1890s, The Mauve Decade.

[5] However, there are also authoritative texts from the United Kingdom in which this same range of colors is referred to by the term purple.

[3] When including languages other than English, and epochs other than the modern period, the uncertainty about the meanings of the color terms violet and purple is even larger.

[6] Since this Wikipedia page contains contributions from authors from different countries and different native languages, it is likely to be not consistent in the use of the color terms violet and purple.

Mauve /ˈmoʊv/ ⓘ[24] (rhymes with "grove"; from the French form of Malva "mallow") is a pale purple.

In the 1980s, there was a Jimi Hendrix Museum in a Victorian house on the east side of Central Avenue one half block south of Haight Street in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco which was painted this color.

Northwestern Purple is a custom ink color and can no longer be referenced by a Pantone number.

For printed material, purple (Pantone #268+)[39] is the official school color of Kansas State University.

[40] [compare with Royal purple: 17th century] For the web, #512888 is the official color, even though that hex triplet is not a direct conversion from Pantone 268+.

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.