As a result, purple and magenta are known as "nonspectral" colors, because they don't really exist as actual electromagnetic ...

Muddying the waters a bit more, purple light doesn't exactly take well to other colors. They tend to wash most shades out and make colors appear blue, purple, or black.

Three colors are rumored to be in the lineup so far. One is already familiar to Apple, but the other two may surprise you.

A purple wave of faulty streetlights has swept across the USA, generating incorrect theories, bad lighting and fans of an accidental aesthetic.

People were taken by surprise by the strange purple shade of streetlights, found to be something other than an alien attack or a military operation.

The visible light spectrum detectable by human eyes makes up only a small fraction of wavelengths (0.0035%, to be exact). Those colors are made available to us by millions of densely packed ...

RHONJ daughter Milania Giudice explains how she adapted to blended-family life after her mom, Teresa Giudice, married Louie ...

Violet is a real spectral color, while purple is fake and exists only as a mix of red and blue light. There’s no pure “purple” wavelength, which is why it’s left out of the rainbow entirely.

Actually, we have only three color sensors in our eyes—one each for red, green, and blue. The intensity of light each sensor detects, and the mix of the three, gives us all the other colors.

The purple is a consequence of this latter method. When that phosphor coating begins to degrade or delaminate, the blue LED can shine through unencumbered and appear as purple or violet.

Scientists suggest that millions of years ago, Earth was not blue but purple and even pink, due to bacteria reflecting red ...

Teal light would “light up” most of your S cones pretty strongly, but would also light up some of your M cones. If there is more blue than green, you see what you perceive as a shade of blue ...