Heliotrope (color)

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Heliotrope
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About these coordinates
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet #DF73FF
B (r, g, b) (223, 115, 255)
HSV (h, s, v) (286°, 55%, 100%)
Source BF2S Color Guide
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

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

The color heliotrope is a brilliant shade of purple.

Another name for this color is vivid Lavender.

The first recorded use of Heliotrope as a color name in English was in 1882. [1]


[edit] Heliotrope in popular culture

  • Heliotrope is among the handful of "half-mourning" colors worn by Victorians during the last stage of mourning. [2]

Film

  • Heliotrope is featured in the Pixar short Film entitled Boundin' where the Jackalope tells the sheep who is recently sheared, "Pink? Pink? Well, what’s wrong with pink? Seems you’ve got a pink kink in your think. Does it matter what color? Well, I guess nope, be it pink, purple or heliotrope."

Literature

  • In Oscar Wilde's "An Ideal Husband", Miss Cheveley enters wearing heliotrope in Act 1
  • In Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, the character Trigorin describes heliotrope as "a widow's color, use it to describe a summer evening," implying that in late 19th century Russia heliotrope was associated with widows.

Radio Comedy

  • Heliotrope was a popular color reference of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, script writers of Hancock's Half Hour. In "The Last of the McHancocks", the McHancock tartan was described by Tony Hancock as, "Puce and lemon squares on a background of heliotrope; and very racy it is too" and in "Hancock's car" the said car is "Orange and Heliotrope".

School colors

Television

  • In the BBC series Red Dwarf episode "Terraform", Kryten's POVs lists his status as several colors, including mauve and heliotrope.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 196; Color Sample of Heliotrope: Page 131 Plate 54 Color Sample C10
  2. ^ Mourning Fashion:

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