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.

[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] The Munsell color system includes the hue term purple, and for some (especially US) speakers of English at the maximum chroma of 12, this refers to 'Red-Purple".

It is very close to sea green but highly saturated and of a bright hue.

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.

[citation needed] 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.

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.

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

If the visible spectrum is wrapped to form a color wheel, red-violet appears midway between red and magenta: