Shades & Tints Of Violet

"Violet", the hue, is halfway between Blue and Magenta. It is associated with the extravagant, the individualist, ambiguity, the unconventional, and the artificial.

There have been good pigments and dyes for violet from the beginning, so it has always been well represented in painting and clothing. Such pigments include: ... which was obtained from.

Today there are spectacular bright violets available such as: ... as well as the traditional earth forms.

Mauve	Mallow Flower	Missing
HSB 268°, 36%, 100% RGB 206, 163, 255
"Mauve" is the colour of ...	Mauve was named after the common mallow, (Malva sylvestris), and this is its flower.	If you find another natural object of the colour swatch on the left please email me.

Kunzite	Kunzite	Verbena Rigida
HSB 268°, 58%, 100% RGB 176, 107, 255
"Kunzite" is the colour of ...	Kunzites do vary in colour and can be slightly in hue but not enough to put them in the adjacent category which is ...	Verbena rigida is a South American member of the vervain family of flowering plants. It has been widely cultivated meaning that there is considerable variation in colour of the flower. This cultivar appears to be fairly common however.

Violet	Violet	Violet Sabrewing
HSB 273°, 100%, 100% RGB 140, 0, 255
"Violet" is the colour of ...	Violets do vary in colour and can be slightly in hue but not enough to put them in the adjacent category which is ...	The Violet Sabrewing (Campylopterus hemileucurus) is a large hummingbird native to Central America. The adult male has a beautiful irredesent plumage on the belly and neck that can be Blue or bright Violet depending on the light and the angle of the light.

Dark Violet	Violet Sea Snail	Nnn
HSB 280°, 100%, 61% RGB 103, 0, 156
"Dark Violet" is the colour of the Violet you see when white light is split with a prism it is also the colour of certain flowers.	The Violet Sea Snail (Janthina janthina) floats along the surface of the temperate and tropical seas bouyed by its own bubbles. They are a dark violet in their natural environment but this can fade to Cobalt Blue then white when when out of the water.	Nnn .

Spectral Violet	Spectral Violet	Violet Backed Starling
HSB 280°, 100%, 43% RGB 72, 0, 110
"Spectral Violet" is the colour of violet in the rainbow, of a few birds and often the colour of the spectacular amethyst crystal in the rough. It is also the colour of Anglican Priest's chasuble.	"Spectral Violet" is the colour that you see beyond blue in a rainbow or light refracted from a prism. It is usually quite faint and hard to see as the human eye's sensitivity to spectral violet is weak. It is composed of a narrow band of wavelengths and is quite different physically to combinations of blue and red light that form the violet you see on computer displays.	The Violet Backed Starling (Cinnyricinclus leucogaster), is a small starling native to sub Saharan Africa. This is the male in mating plumage.