Category talk:Shades of violet
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This article falls within the scope of WikiProject Visual arts, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to visual arts on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion. | |
| ??? | Class: This article has not been assigned a class according to the assessment scale. | |
[edit] Move to Shades of purple
I propose that this category and its associated template be moved to ...:Shades of purple (or ...:Varieties of purple). My reasoning is simple. Violet refers specifically to the colour of 380–420 nanometre spectral light or a colour of similar hue. Therefore such colours as magenta, cerise, red-violet, sangria, rose, etc. are too reddish to be considered shades of purple. One might even argue that indigo is also no shade of violet being too bluish (440-420 nanometres). Purple, on the other hand, is a broader term ... at least in everyday speech: purple includes all of these colours between red and blue. If consensus is reached that we should rather use the more specialised and restricted chromaticians' sense of the word purple, then perhaps we should split rather than move the category/template. I, however, wouldn't find the latter necessary or desireable. Of course, before doing any of this we should wait to see what becomes of the proposal to move Category:Shades of orange (and therefore all Shades of ... categories & templates) so as to void the risk of having to move/split Category/Template:Shades of violet twice. Jimp 00:42, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Unknown Shade of Purple
What color is this suppose to be? Here's the RGB chart for it:
Red: 46
Green: 13
Blue: 87
