Purple is uncommon in flags, with only two globally containing the colour. Because of this, it is believed by some to embody supernatural energy. Until today purple is associated with the aristocratic and Emperors of Japan.įACTS: Purple is the closest colour to x-rays and gamma rays, making it the most powerful visible wavelength of the electromagnetic field. During the Roman Empire, Julius Caesar and Augustus enforced that only emperors wear purple, and that its sale to others was punishable by death. It requires 12,000 shellfish to extract 1.5 grams of pure purple dye, which was sufficient for just one piece of clothing the size of a Roman toga.įASHION: Roman magistrates, rulers of the Byzantine Empire and the Holy Roman Empire, and Roman Catholic bishops all treated purple as their imperial color for their costumes. It is likely that during pre-historic times our ancestors never saw purple in nature considering its rarity. A Mediterranean sea snail provided the most popular famous purple die in the ancient world, called murex. HISTORY: The Neolithic era shows purple used for the first time in prehistoric art. MEANINGS / ASSOCIATIONS: Authenticity, charming, dignified, exclusive, luxury, quality, regal, sensuality, sophisticated, spiritual, stately, upper class, magic, rarity, mystery, piety, the subconscious, creativity, dignity, royalty, decadence, conceit, and pomposityĮTYMOLOGY: ‘Purple’ comes from Latin purpura, and the Greek πορφύρα (porphura), which is the classical antiquity name of the purple dye sourced from secreted mucus of the murex snail. Until a synthetic pigment was produced in the 19th century to kick start a revolution in the fashion world.SMELL & TASTE REFERENCE: Eggplant, fig, purple grapes, blackberriesįREQUENCY: 790-680 THz / WAVELENGTH: 375 - 440 nm Since this publication Professor Elmon Coe. Israeli researchers have found three textile scraps near the southern tip of Israel colored with the biblically described argaman royal purple dye, and dated them to circa 1,000 BCE the era. The color was expensive due to rarity of sources and hand work devoted to produce the pigments, for instance tyrian purple requires thousands of snails with a tedious process to produce a small amount. The study on the purple colour published in 1980 demonstrated the presence of an enzyme in the Murex Trunculus. History: due to the rarity of the pigment, but also because the color is really full of pride, it was a color choice of royals and upper-class, from Julius Caesar to Queen Cleopatra.
And in CMYK color space, it is composed of 100% magenta, and 49% black without cyan or yellow. The same can be said about RGB color space used in screens where it is made up of 128/255 red (~50.2% of red), 128/255 blue (~50.2% of blue), with no green component. How the color is made: purple is a balanced mix of red and blue, and it can be made by mixing them in wet media. But it is also deeply connected with stimulating imagination, let alone its majestical and spiritual qualities. One of the majestical colors that is not only associated with power, authority and royalty.
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