Color Names

Prickly Purple

Cactus-colored, a gentle purple with thorns.

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Prickly Purple is a medium purple, close to violet.

It can be described as medium, moderate, rather unsaturated and cold.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Prickly 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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prickly

Adjective

  1. Covered with sharp points.
  2. Easily irritated; thorny.

Adverb

  1. In a prickly manner.
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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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