purple

Summary

purple is a color^[1]. purple ranks in the top 2% of color entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,838 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• purple's instance of is recorded as color^[3].
• purple's instance of is recorded as HTML4 named color^[4].
• purple followed indigo^[5].
• purple is a type of red^[6].
• purple is a type of blue^[7].
• purple is part of shade of blue^[8].
• purple is part of shade of red^[9].
• purple's Commons category is recorded as Purple^[10].
• purple's sRGB color hex triplet is recorded as 800080^[11].
• purple's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Purple^[12].
• purple's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition^[13].
• purple's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language^[14].
• purple's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4^[15].
• purple's CSS color keyword is recorded as purple^[16].

Body

Context

Part of include shade of blue^[8], a color feature^[17] and shade of red^[9], a color feature^[18]. Recorded instance of include color^[3] and HTML4 named color^[4]. purple followed indigo^[5].

Outcome and Impact

Things named for purple include purpurite^[19], a mineral species^[20]; Purple Day^[21], an awareness day^[22], in Iran^[23], founded in 2008^[24]; and phoenicochroite^[25], a mineral species^[26].

Why It Matters

purple ranks in the top 2% of color entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,838 views/month).^[2] purple has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[27] purple is known by 34 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[28]

Entities named for purple include purpurite^[19], a mineral species^[20]; Purple Day^[21], an awareness day^[22], in Iran^[23], founded in 2008^[24]; and phoenicochroite^[25], a mineral species^[26].