While violet hits your eye with a specific wavelength, purple only exists in your perception — a clever construct built from conflicting input.

“Purple has the excitement of red, but the calmingness of blue,” she says, noting that while orange is also a secondary color, its red and yellow components share warm messaging. Fair.

Sure, some holiday color pairings are obvious—red, white and blue for the Fourth of July, or green for St. Patrick’s Day. But Halloween’s iconic shades feel a little more mysterious. Is it just about ...

Everyone knows that red means danger, but how did purple become a cautionary color? At an EPA conference in the late 1990s, attendees nearly came to blows over color coding on the Air Quality Index.

Rainbows have all colors of the spectrum: red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet. But rainbows never include the color purple, because purple is not a true color.

Within the Orange Bubble, one color stands out for Kaden Knight ’28, who dresses exclusively in shades of purple. The Daily Princetonian sat down with “The Purple Guy” to find out why. Kaden Knight: I ...

Another straightforward way to make purple as approachable as any other neutral color is to simply style it with a more muted color palette. Whether you opt for black, white, gray, or brown ...

Orange and black. While it might seem that black and orange have been around forever as the “official” colors of Halloween, that’s not the case, according to Lisa Morton, author of “Trick ...

The official colors of Carroll College are purple and gold: Unfortunately, neither of these is really a color. Gold is a metal, although yellow is a color. Sadly, purple isn’t ...