Internet Colors - Set of 1035 Medium Violet-red Color 594 - #C71585
Red-violet is a rich color of high medium saturation about 3/4 of the way
between red and magenta, closer to magenta than to red. It is classified in
color theory as one of the purple colors - a non-spectral color between red and
violet that is a deep version of a color on the line of purples on the CIE
chromaticity diagram. Both its saturation and brightness falling short of 100%,
red-violet is not a pure chroma. There is a color of similar hue that, however,
that comes close to being a pure chroma: process magenta. The pure chroma color
composed of equal parts of magenta and red is called rose.
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