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->''"The symbolism of purple is equally ambiguous. In terms of formal power, purple was, and often still is, the color of royalty or of the highest vestments of priesthood. And yet in terms of unbridled revelry, if Bacchus ever had a color he could claim for his own, it should surely be the shade of tannin on drunken lips, of Creator/JohnKeats's 'purple-stained mouth', or perhaps even of Creator/{{Homer}}'s dangerously wine-dark sea."''
-->-- '''Victoria Finlay''', ''Color: A Natural History of the Palette''

If there's any color that conjures deep emotions more than {{blue| tropes}}, it's [[purple:'''purple''']]. Purple intensely resembles violet, which is the highest visible color on the human light spectrum, just before the (technically invisible) ultraviolet. It is a color that can be created in painting by [[RedIndexBlueIndex combining red and blue paint]]. Purple as a color has symbolized royalty since antiquity (especially Roman / Byzantine), though in many cultures it wasn't considered a separate color from [[PaintTheIndexRed red]]. The term "PurpleProse" was created specifically to critique people sewing purple patches on to their clothes to show off their wealth.

In modern times, purple remains a very exotic and powerful color. Besides [[PinkTropes pink]], purple is considered one of the most symbolic colors of the LGBT community, and occasionally associated as a color of solidarity between gay people and their straight allies.
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!!Tropes
[[index]]
* GracefulLadiesLikePurple: When a girl or woman shows her femininity and/or gracefulness by wearing purple.
* GravityIsPurple: Gravity associated with the color purple.
* MysteriousPurple: The color purple used to characterize or code things as mysterious, ambiguous, or enigmatic.
* PurpleIsPowerful: Purple used to represent power and badassery.
* PurpleIsTheNewBlack: When a different dark color, such as purple, stands in for black.
* TechnicolorToxin: Poison and other toxic materials are vividly colored, in particular halogen green and deep purple are often used.
* YellowPurpleContrast: A popular ColorContrast between purple and yellow.
[[/index]]
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