Shades & Tints Of Dioxazine

"Dioxazine", the hue, is ... It is associated with ...

Colours that are quite close to "Dioxazine" include ... Darker shades include: ...

There have been good pigments and dyes for han_purple 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 han_purples available such as: ... as well as the traditional earth forms.

Rose De France	Rose De France	Missing
HSB 255°, 30%, 100% RGB 197, 178, 255
"Rose De France" is the colour of the eponymous gemstone.	"Rose De France" is a member of the Amethyst family of gemstones. They are a lighter and slightly more blue in hue than the more famous Amethyst.	If you find another natural object of the colour swatch on the left please email me.

Lavender	Lavender	Common Blue Violet
HSB 255°, 47%, 100% RGB 165, 135, 255
"Lavender" is the colour of various flowers.	Lavender is a genus in the mint family. It contains 39 species the most famous of which is "Common Lavender" (Lavandula angustifolia), which is is used for its aromatic oil and its flowers. The colour here is that of the petals which are quite small.	There are at least 500 species of Violet. This is Viola sororia which is common in the the eastern USA. The Lavender colour is the outer areas of the petals NOT the bluer veins.

Dark Lavender	Han Purple Sweet Violet	Han Purple African Violet
HSB 256°, 68%, 100% RGB 128, 82, 255
"Han Purple" is a synthetic barium copper silicate pigment developed in China and used from the Western Zhou period (1045–771 BC) until the end of the Han dynasty (c. 220 AD). It is the colour of various flowers especially "Violets".	The "Sweet Violet", (Viola odorata), has flowers of varying colours but this is probably the most common. There is also a Kunzite form.	African Violets comprise 10 or more species and a wide range of colours between Blue and Red. This Han Purple variety is quite common.

Han Purple	Purple Morning Glory	Missing
HSB 264°, 100%, 100% RGB 102, 0, 255
"Dark Han Purple" is the colour of ...	"Purple Morning Glory" (Ipomoea purpurea), is a common vine found throughout the warm areas of the world. It has been cultivated and the colour of its flowers varies significantly. There are two main colours the blue_violet and the red-purple. This is an example of the first.	If you find another natural object of the colour swatch on the left please email me.

Dioxazine	Dioxazine Purple	Dioxazine Dress
HSB 264°, 100%, 45% RGB 46, 0, 115
"Dioxazine" is a very dark Han Purple. It is a rare colour in the natural world but is used in the modern world for clothing, manchester and art.	"Dioxazine Purple", (PV 23), is a modern synthetic pigment, intense, clean, stable and lightfast. It is very useful for obtaining deep clean blue-violet colours.	This colour has become popular in the fashion industry in recent times harking back to an ancient very dark Han Purple.