The Color Psychology of Purple
Each color supposedly has its own effect, but the feeling that each color produces can vary based on experience.
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Introduction
People often describe this color as mysterious, spiritual, and imaginative. Purple tends to occur rarely in nature, so it is viewed as rare and intriguing. Purple is a combination of blue and red. So what are some of the most common associations people have with the color purple? Like many other colors, the feelings that the color purple evokes are often due to cultural associations.
How does the color purple make you feel?
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Meaning
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Because purple is so strongly associated with royalty, people perceive it as being regal color. The associations with royalty were due to the fact that the Phoenician purple dye that was used in ancient times was very rare.
@vousemevoyez
Purple is the symbol of royalty and wealth. In ancient times, creating dyes to color fabric often required a great deal of effort and expense, especially for certain colors. Because purple is less common in nature.
It’s a pale, soft shade of purple connected to romance and affection. Its association with flowers conjures innocence, nostalgia, and youth.
Standing at the end of the visible light spectrum, violet evokes royalty, creativity, confidence, and individuality.
As a natural pigment that comes from plants, indigo is considered one of the seven major spectral colors. It symbolizes wisdom, higher knowledge, devotion, frustration, and sad feelings.
It’s a color that lends softness and yet creates a sense of respect. It is mostly considered feminine in western cultures.
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Represents
Since purple does not often occur in nature, it can sometimes appear exotic or artificial. For this reason, it tends to be quite a polarizing color. People tend to either really love purple or really hate it.
Visually, purple also has the strongest electro magnetic wave length, being just a few wavelengths up from x-rays and gamma rays. For this reason, it is often used in visual illusions such as the lilac chaser illusion.
In writing, the phrase "purple prose" is sometimes used to describe writing that is extremely imaginative or even prone to hyperbole or outright lies.
The color purple became associated with wealth and royalty because very often the rich were the only individuals who could afford such expensive items
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This connection with royalty was not just restricted to ancient times. Purple was the color of choice for the Purple Robe of Estate worn by Queen Elizabeth II
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Purple also represents wisdom and spirituality. Its rare and mysterious nature perhaps causes it to seem connected to the unknown, supernatural, and divine.
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05.
History
We interrupt your daily newsfeed with this message brought to you by purple, which traveled all the way from ancient times to become the color of 2018. The Pantone Color Institute, which helps makers of products select color for designs, announced this week that it chose to paint the coming year Ultra Violet, a purple-highlighter shade.
So why purple?
It’s “the most complex of all colors,” Leatrice Eiseman, the institute’s executive director, told The New York Times in an article in the Fashion and Style section published Thursday. “Because it takes two shades that are seemingly diametrically opposed — blue and red — and brings them together to create something new.”
In Europe, since the time that the Roman emperors wore a Tyrian purple (purpura) toga praetexta, purple has been the color most associated with power and royalty
In the West, purple or violet is the color most associated with piety and religious faith. In the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic liturgy, purple symbolizes penitence.
Purple is a secondary color that is complementary to yellow, according to the CMYK color model. On the other hand, it is complementary to green according to the RGB color model.
Purple is the meeting point between warm red and cool blue and consists of many shades in between. Because of this, purple retains both warm and cool properties. On the one hand, it is considered warm at the magenta and maroon end and cool at the violet end.
Purple gemstones are believed to enhance creativity, intuition, imagination, and to offer protection, cleansing, and wisdom to discern the best use of one’s energy