Violet (colour)

Violet is a skyre bluochie purpie colour that taks its name frae the violet flouer.^[2] On the tradeetional colour wheel uised bi painters, it is locatit atween blue an purpie. Violet is at the heicher end o the veesible spectrum, wi a wavelenth atween thareby 380-450 nanometer.^[3] Licht wi a shorter wavelength than violet but langer than X-rays an gamma rays is cried ultraviolet, an isna veesible tae the human ee.

Violet   Spectral coordinates Wavelenth 380–450 nm Frequency 800–715 THz     Colour coordinates Hex triplet #8000FF sRGBB  (r, g, b) (128, 0, 255) CMYKH   (c, m, y, k) (50, 100, 0, 0) HSV       (h, s, v) (270°, 100%, 100%) Soirce HTML Color Chart @274 B: Normalised tae [0–255] (byte) H: Normalised tae [0–100] (hunder)

Violet as a tertiary colour   purple   violet[1]   blue

Accordin tae surveys in Europe an the Unitit States, violet is the colour maist commonly associated wi the lovitch, the individualist, swither, the heronious, an the airtificial.^[4]