Random trivia | 50 facts about purple

Purple is one of the most elegant colors of them all. Many people have it as their favorite, but how many things do they even know about it?

Well, here we are in order to enlighten you about it.

1. Purple is considered as the royal color.
2. This is because back when they relied only on natural dyes, purple came from sea snails and was the hardest dye to extract and produce so only royals could afford it.
3. Purple refers to any of a variety of colors with a hue between red and blue.
4. Purple is closely associated with violet.
5. In optics, purple and violet refer to colors that look similar.
6. Purples though are mixtures of red light and blue or violet light, whereas violets are spectral colors.
7. Purple is closer to red, while violet to blue.
8. The same differentiation happens to traditional painting.
9. According to contemporary surveys in Europe and the United States, purple is the color most often associated with royalty, magic, and mystery.
10. When combined with pink, it is associated with eroticism, femininity, and seduction.
11. Purple first appeared in prehistoric art during the Neolithic era.
12. Purple was a favorite color of the Austrian painter, Gustav Klimt.
13. In the early 20th century, purple, green, and white were the colors of the Women’s Suffrage movement.
14. As a tribute to the Suffragettes, it became the color of the women’s liberation movement.
15. In the concentration camps of Nazi Germany, prisoners who were members of non-conformist religious groups, such as the Jehovah’s Witnesses, were required to wear a purple triangle.
16. During the 1960s and early 1970s, it was also associated with counterculture and psychedelics
17. Purple is also connected with musicians like Jimi Hendrix with his 1967 song “Purple Haze”,
18. Also, there is a famous rock band named ” Deep Purple, which was formed in 1968.
19. Prince released an album named “Purple Rain”.
20. This song won an Oscar for the Best Original Song Score.
21. A film called The Color Purple, which was released in 1985, received 11 Oscar nominations,
22. However it didn’t win a single award.
23. There is an actual purple frog. The purple frog is a species of amphibian found in India.
24. One of the stars in the Pleiades, called Pleione, is sometimes called Purple Pleione.
25. This happens because, being a fast-spinning star, it has a purple hue caused by its blue-white color being obscured by a spinning ring of electrically excited red hydrogen gas.
26. The Purple Forbidden enclosure is a name used in traditional Chinese astronomy.
27. It is used for those Chinese constellations that surround the North Celestial Pole.
28. There are plenty of mountains called “Purple Mountain”. Some of them are in Alaska, Washington, Oregon, etc
29. Originally, the color purple came from a dye made from the mucus glands of a tropical sea snail known as the murex.
30. The murex’s Latin name is purpura, which is where we get the word purple from.
31. In Japan, the color purple signifies wealth and position.
32. Because purple dye was so difficult to obtain and expensive to produce, the color became the royal color in many parts of the world and is traditionally associated with royalty and power.
33. Purple is the hardest color for the eye to distinguish!
34. Carrots used to be purple (like maaany years ago).
35. Purple symbolizes the gay community in many Western cultures.
36. The Archbishop of Cyprus is allowed to sign official papers in purple ink.
37. Purple is the color for epilepsy awareness because of its association with lavender.
38. Lavender is purple and it is a traditional herbal treatment for the disease.
39. 26th March is Purple Day, which is a day where people dress in purple and raise awareness for Epilepsy.
40. Purple Day was created in 2008 by Cassidy Megan, a nine-year-old Canadian.
41. If you’re born “in the purple” you are born of high or noble birth.
42. Forbidden City in Beijing, China is actually called “The Purple Forbidden City”,.
43. This is a reference to a secret purple area in heaven, thought to be centered somewhere near the North Star.
44. You may have heard the “fact” that nothing rhymes with the word purple, but this is not true.
45. Curple is a strap under the girth of a horse’s saddle, which stops the saddle from kicking forward.
46. Samuel L. Jackson said that he would only play Mace Windu in Star Wars if he had a purple lightsaber!
47. Dominica is the only nation on Earth to use the color purple in its flag.
48. In the garden, the perfect complementary color to purple is yellow.
49. In Orthodox Christianity, the purple color is considered the one to represent grief.
50. As the story goes 17th-century Dutch farmers started to cross-breed specifically for orange carrots in honor of their ruler, William of Orange.