If there's any color that conjures deep emotions more than blue, it's 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 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 red. The term "Purple Prose" 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 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.
Tropes
- Graceful Ladies Like Purple: When a girl or woman shows her femininity and/or gracefulness by wearing purple.
- Gravity Is Purple: Gravity associated with the color purple.
- Mysterious Purple: The color purple used to characterize or code things as mysterious, ambiguous, or enigmatic.
- Purple Is Powerful: Purple used to represent power and badassery.
- Purple Is the New Black: When a different dark color, such as purple, stands in for black.
- Technicolor Toxin: Poison and other toxic materials are vividly colored, in particular halogen green and deep purple are often used.
- Yellow/Purple Contrast: A popular Color Contrast between purple and yellow.
