Violet (color) Totally Explained

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Pigment violet (web color dark violet)

The color box at right displays the web color dark violet which is equivalent to pigment violet, for example, the color violet as it would typically be reproduced by artist's paints, colored pencils, or crayons as opposed to the brighter "electric" violet above that it's possible to reproduce on a computer screen.
Compare the subtractive colors to the additive colors in the two primary color charts in the article on primary colors to see the distinction between electric colors as reproducible from light on a computer screen (additive colors) and the pigment colors reproducible with pigments (subtractive colors); the additive colors are a lot brighter because they're produced from light instead of pigment.
Pigment violet (web color dark violet) represents the way the color violet was always reproduced in pigments, paints, or colored pencils in the 1950s. By the 1970s, because of the advent of psychedelic art, artists became used to brighter pigments, and pigments called "Violet" that are the pigment equivalent of the electric violet reproduced in the section above became available in artists pigments and colored pencils. (When approximating electric violet in artists pigments, a bit of white pigment is added to pigment violet.)

Web color "violet"

The so-called web color "violet" isn't really a tint of violet at all, but is a non-spectral color, not a spectral color like violet is. The web color violet is actually a rather pale tint of magenta because it has equal amounts of red and blue (the definition of magenta for computer display), and some of the green primary mixed in, unlike most other variants of violet that are closer to blue. This same color appears as "violet" in the X11 color names.

Violet in human culture

Art

In Chinese painting, the color violet represents the harmony of the universe because it's a combination of red (yang) and blue (yin).

Food

In the United Kingdom in it's traditional to package chocolate in violet colored packaging because of the association of the color with luxury. Literature

Violet is the name of a 75 foot in diameter spherical starship that was an enlarged version of the Skylark Two in the 1948 E.E. Smith science fiction novel Skylark Three (originally published in Amazing Stories in 1930), the second book of the of the Skylark tetralogy. Parapsychology

Psychics who claim to be able to observe the aura with their third eye report that those who are practicing occultists (magickal thaumaturgists) often have a violet aura. It is said that people with violet auras are forward looking visionaries who may be in s such as performance artist, photographer, venture capitalist, astronaut, futurist, or quantum physicist. Religion

Violet is the liturgical color of Advent and Lent in many western churches.

In the Ascended Master Teachings, a group of religions based on Theosophy, the color violet is used to represent the Ascended Master St. Germain.

The Invocation of the Violet Flame is a system of meditation practice used in the "I AM" Activity and by the Church Universal and Triumphant (both Ascended Master Teaching religions). It is believed to be invoked from Saint Germain and practicing it's part of these religions' devotion to Saint Germain.Further Information

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