Heliotrope (color)

For other uses, see Heliotrope (disambiguation).

Heliotrope is a pink-purple tint that is a representation of the colour of the heliotrope flower.

Heliotrope
Heliotrope flowers
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#DF73FF
sRGBB (r, g, b)	(223, 115, 255)
HSV (h, s, v)	(286°, 55%, 100%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)	(66, 102, 295°)
Source	Maerz and Paul[1]
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Vivid purple
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

The first recorded use of heliotrope as a color name in English was in 1882.^[2]

Variations

Heliotrope gray

Heliotrope Gray
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#AA98A9
sRGBB (r, g, b)	(170, 152, 169)
HSV (h, s, v)	(303°, 11%, 67%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)	(65, 14, 310°)
Source	ISCC-NBS[3][4]
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Pale purple
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

The color heliotrope gray is displayed at right. The first recorded use of heliotrope gray as a colour name in English was in 1912.^[5]

Heliotrope magenta

Heliotrope Magenta
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#AA00BB
sRGBB (r, g, b)	(170, 0, 187)
HSV (h, s, v)	(295°, 100%, 73%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)	(41, 99, 300°)
Source	[Unsourced]
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Vivid purple
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Old heliotrope

Old Heliotrope
Color coordinates
Hex triplet	#563C5C
sRGBB (r, g, b)	(86, 60, 92)
HSV (h, s, v)	(289°, 35%, 36%)
CIELChuv (L, C, h)	(29, 23, 299°)
Source	Maerz and Paul[6]
ISCC–NBS descriptor	Dark purple
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the colour old heliotrope.

Another name for this colour is old helio.

The first recorded use of old helio as a colour name in English was in 1926.^[7]

In culture

• The color has been widely referenced as a characterization, the colour of key plot objects, or as flavor text in many works:
  • Heliotrope was a popular colour reference of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, script writers of Hancock's Half Hour.
  • In James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, "heliotrope" is the answer to the Maggies' riddle.^{[clarification needed]} Throughout the chapter, the word "heliotrope" is disguised a number of times, hidden either in anagrams, riddles, puns, or obscure allusions.
  • In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the Polyjuice Potion brewed in order to disguise Hermione Granger as Mafalda Hopkirk is described as having a "pleasant heliotrope colour."
• The periorbital purplish discoloration occurring in dermatomyositis is called the "Heliotrope rash" after the colour.
• Heliotrope was among the handful of "half-mourning" colours worn by Victorians during the last stage of mourning.^[8]
• "Heliotrope" is the title of the fourth track on At the Drive-In's 1999 EP Vaya.
• Heliotrope was referenced as a health status condition of the service droid Kryten in the Red Dwarf Series V episode Terrorform.
• "Heliotrope Bouquet" is a slow drag two step by Scott Joplin (with contributions from Louis Chauvin) composed in 1907.
• In the TV series Yellowjackets, the members of the new religious movement surrounding Lottie Matthews wear heliotrope robes; as she says, "We make the dye ourselves from the flowers used to treat wounds."^[9][10][11]

See also

• Heliotrope (disambiguation)
• Lists of colours