Color Names

Faded Purple

Velvet purple worn thin, its royalty faded to a soft mauve.

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Faded Purple is a muted purple, close to mauve.

It can be described as muted, dull, matte and soft.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Faded Purple

Purple

Purple is a color similar in appearance to violet light. In the RYB color model historically used in the arts, purple is a secondary color created by combining red and blue pigments. In the CMYK color model used in modern printing, purple is made by combining magenta pigment with cyan pigment, black pigment, or both. In the RGB color model used in computer and television screens, purple is created by mixing red and blue light in order to create colors that appear similar to violet light. According to color theory, purple is considered a cool color.

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faded

Adjective

  1. That has lost some of its former vividness and colour.
  2. That has lost some of its former strength or vigour.

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of fade
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purple

Noun

  1. A colour between red and blue; violet, though often closer to magenta.
  2. Any non-spectral colour on the line of purples on a colour chromaticity diagram or a colour wheel between violet and red.

Adjective

  1. Of a purple hue.
  2. Not predominantly red or blue, but having a mixture of Democrat and Republican support.
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