Editing Red-violet (section)

==Red-violet==
{{infobox color
 |title=Red-Violet /<br />Medium Violet Red (X11)
 |hex=C71585
 |source=[[X11 color names|X11]]
 |isccname=Vivid purplish red}}

Red-violet or pigment purple (pigment red-violet) represents the way the color purple (red-violet) was normally reproduced in pigments, paints, or colored pencils in the 1950s on an old-fashioned [[RYB color model|RYB color wheel]]. This color is displayed at right.

The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Color/Normalized Color Coordinates|normalized color coordinates]] for red-violet are identical to '''medium violet red''', which was first recorded as a color name in English with the formalization of the [[X11 color names]] over 1985–1989.

By the 1970s, because of the advent of [[psychedelic art]], artists became used to brighter pigments, and pigments called "purple" or "bright purple" that are the pigment equivalent of [[Shades of purple#Electric purple: 2000s|electric purple]] became available in artist's pigments and colored pencils. Reproducing electric purple in pigment requires adding some [[white]] and a small amount of blue to red-violet pigment. Even then, the reproduction will not be exact, because it is impossible for pigment colors to be so bright as colors displayed on a computer.
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