18 Facts About Purple

Purple is any of a variety of colors with hue between red and blue.

Purple has long been associated with royalty, originally because Tyrian purple dye, made from the mucus secretion of a species of snail, was extremely expensive in antiquity.

Purple was the color worn by Roman magistrates; it became the imperial color worn by the rulers of the Byzantine Empire and the Holy Roman Empire, and later by Roman Catholic bishops.

Purple first appeared in prehistoric art during the Neolithic era.

Purple became a fashionable color in the state of Qi because its ruler developed a preference for it.

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Purple was regarded as a secondary color in ancient China.

Empresses gave birth in the Purple Chamber, and the emperors born there were known as "born to the purple, " to separate them from emperors who won or seized the title through political intrigue or military force.

Purple's experiments produced instead the first synthetic aniline dye, a purple shade called mauveine, shortened simply to mauve.

Purple was popular with the pre-Raphaelite painters in Britain, including Arthur Hughes, who loved bright colors and romantic scenes.

Purple Rain Protest was a protest against apartheid that took place in Cape Town, South Africa on 2 September 1989, in which a police water cannon with purple dye sprayed thousands of demonstrators.

Purple frog is a species of amphibian found in India.

Purple is often worn by senior pastors of Protestant churches and bishops of the Anglican Communion.

Purple is the color most often associated with the artificial and the unconventional.

Purple was the color of the aristocracy in Japan and China.

Purple is the color of the Engineering Corp in the British Military.

Purple is sometimes associated with the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community.

Purple is closely associated with bisexuality, largely in part to the bisexual pride flag which combines pink – representing homosexuality – and blue – representing heterosexuality – to create the bisexual purple.

Purple trademarked the color purple for chocolates with registrations in 1995 and 2004.