What colour is this?

[purplepoppy]

Colour is a funny thing because the naming of colours changes through history. For example at one time we lumped blue and green together as one colour. Orange was stuck in with red until oranges became popular.

Now purples nice one, does anyone really know at what point it's indigo or violet? But here I want to concentrate on the two main words for the purple group in English, purple and puce.

Purple comes from the Greek porphura via Latin as purpura. From a type of mollusc you get dye from. The welsh porffor is closer to the original Greek.

Puce comes from the French puce meaning flea colour and is taken from the Latin pulex.

Both puce and purple are widely used in the uk and are exchangable in most peoples eyes but puce is perhaps an old persons word.

It's purple

It's puce

They're not the same

Isn't purple just red

Isn't purple just blue

Pucepoppy doesn't sound right

[BoobSlayer]

Is this one of those test to determine whether or not I'm human? Like, identify all the boobs in this picture? Well let me tell you Miss @purplepoppy , I am not a human. I am a superhuman. So there!
#BoobslayerRules

[Anonymous]

There is an interesting documentary on this subject that I watched many years ago but I can't find a working link.

It was from the BBC Horizon series in approx 2011 called 'Do you see what i see?'

In part of it some scientists go out to whereever, somewhere in Africa or Asia i think to some fairly isolated people and they compare ideas about colour perception. Those people have more definitions for blues and greens and because of this they are able to see differences in colours which the Western scientists are literally blind to.

They made colour charts like you get for testing colour blindness with these blues and greens etc.

There is a bunch of other stuff in there too, like judges being biased in their assessments of 2 martial artists performances, they watch from video so that the colours can be manipulated and on average the red fighter is considered to be stronger regardless of which one is shown as being red, I don't remember the statistics, it's clearly not going to be 100% of the time but it's a statistically significant skew.

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

If we go by that chart you’re using, that color looks like plum 🤷🏼‍♀️

[Bilboes]

That's just Grimace Purple..

[Sonorous]

I'd just prefer to simplify it & call it purple because there are so many different colors making up that image:

The darkest parts:
Black
Smokey Black
Licorice
Seal Brown

The brightest parts:
Platinum

Everything in between:
Ginsboro
Languid Laender
Thistle
Bright Ube
Wisteria
Light Pastel Purple
Bright Lavender
Lavender (Floral)
Rich Lavender
Amethyst
Regalia
Royal Purple
Deep Lilac
Purple Heart
Patriarch
Purple Mountain Majesty
Dark Magenta
Indigo (Web)
Tyrian Purple
Persian Indigo
Onyx
Palatinate Purple
Dark Byzantium
Arsenic
Dark Sienna

[Jersey2]

I have spent many seconds researching this on the interweb and found in the first article I read that Puce is actually green. This must be true because it has references and everything. o me though Puce is something someone in fashion or a paint seller would say.

My wife bought “Coral” color paint for our bathroom. After dark with the light on it simply became bright orange. Then I was the guy selling a house with a friggin orange bathroom.

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/68872/what-color-is-puce-and-why-do-different-people-give-radically-different-answe

[AviatorTom]

I'm a simple guy with a simple color wheel. Mix the primary colors red and blue together and you get PURPLE, a secondary color.

[mstbooblover]

To me this seems blue leaning towards purple (blue with a drop of red ;0)

[Nifrayu]

I would use the word violet to describe this. With the mix of hues and shades it's difficult for me to be more specific with it.

[ShesRad80]

purple

[Mansearching]

I like that... its funny

[Jaximus-Lion]

This is more like a shade of midnight purple. I know color more than usual people and i love it

[Guido]

While it is a purple, it is somewhere between Eggplant and Grape ao let's call it Gregg.

[AngryCarl2]

That's purple. It's nothing like puce. It's not even close to puce.

[KostasKouvalis]

It's purple. Why people always gotta overcomplicate things?

[Jennz6]

It’s Purple 💜💜💙

[Kelly6]

Purple. = plum

[Simslover92]

It's purple to me

[Sinmaster]

Purple became the color of royalty

[Ninania]

It's violet.

[Andres77]

Lavendery?

[Nikki1989]

Purple.

[Awantika03]

Purple 💜

[Sparkie460]

It's purple

[Iron_Man]

Purple