While violet hits your eye with a specific wavelength, purple only exists in your perception — a clever construct built from conflicting input.

Purple is a combination of wavelengths from opposite extremes of the spectrum, which technically deosn’t make any sense, but our brains evolved a solution. When we “see” a combination of blue and red ...

Scientists have revealed that purple, a popular color often associated with royalty, is fake. A figment of our imaginations.

Faulty LED streetlights have been turning purple ... a white light. However LED diodes don’t produce white light naturally. To get white light, it was necessary to mix other colors with blue ...

In fact, violet (along with the rest of the colors in a naturally occurring rainbow) has something purple doesn’t—its own wavelength of light. Anyone who ever ended up with a sunburn knows ...