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{{short description|Overview of color term}} {{Redirect|Purple red|the RAL color|Purple red (RAL)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2022}} [[File:Ascension 1944 10sh red violet Three Sisters.jpg|right|thumb|A red-violet used on a postage stamp]] '''Red-violet''' refers to a rich color of high medium saturation about 3/4 of the way between red and magenta, closer to [[magenta]] than to red.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fehrman |first1=K.R. |last2=Fehrman |first2=C. |title=Color - the secret influence |date=2004 |publisher=Pearson Education |location=Upper Saddle River}}</ref> In American English, this color term is sometimes used in [[color theory]] as one of the purple colors—a non-[[Spectrum|spectral]] color between red and violet that is a deep version of a color on the [[line of purples]] on the [[CIE chromaticity diagram]].{{Citation needed|date=July 2022}} In use by some artists red-violet is equivalent to purple. Since violet and purple vary so much in meaning when comparing speakers from different countries and languages, there is much confusion.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Matschi |first1=M. |title=Color terms in English: Onomasiological and Semasiological aspects |journal=Onomasiology Online |date=2005 |volume=5 |pages=56–139 |url=https://www1.ku.de/SLF/EngluVglSW/matschi1041.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Spence |first1=N. |title=The Linguistic Field of Colour Terms in French |journal=Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie |date=1989 |volume=105 |issue=5–6 |pages=472–497 |doi=10.1515/zrph.1989.105.5-6.472|s2cid=161984015 }}</ref> The [[Munsell color system]] includes the hue term purple, and for some (especially US) speakers of English at the maximum chroma of 12, this refers to 'Red-Purple". This convention is for chromatic purposes, since Red-Purple lies between [[Violet (color)|violet]] and [[Magenta#Process magenta (pigment magenta; printer's magenta) (1890s)|printer's magenta]] (the [[Magenta#History|color regarded as magenta]] before the invention of the [[Magenta#Web colours magenta and fuchsia|web color magenta]] for computer displays).{{Citation needed|date=January 2008}}
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