Heliotrope (color)
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| Heliotrope | ||
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| Hex triplet | #DF73FF | |
| RGBB | (r, g, b) | (223, 115, 255) |
| HSV | (h, s, v) | (286°, 55%, 100%) |
| Source | BF2S Color Guide | |
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Heliotrope is a pink-purple tint that is a representation of the color of the heliotrope flower.
The color heliotrope is a brilliant shade of purple.
Another name for this color is vivid Lavender.
The first recorded use of Heliotrope as a color name in English was in 1882. [1]
[edit] Heliotrope in popular culture
- Heliotrope is the name of a grayish-purple color for certain clothing items in the Old Navy online catalog.
- Heliotrope is among the handful of "half-mourning" colors worn by Victorians during the last stage of mourning. [2]
- Heliotrope is featured in the Pixar short Film entitled Boundin' where the Jackalope tells the sheep who is recently sheared, "Pink? Pink? Well, what’s wrong with pink? Seems you’ve got a pink kink in your think. Does it matter what color? Well, that gets nope. Be it pink, purple or heliotrope."
- In Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, the character Trigorin describes heliotrope as "a widow's color, use it to describe a summer evening," implying that in late 19th century Russia heliotrope was associated with widows.
- In Thank You, Jeeves, Bertie Wooster returns home to find Pauline Stoker in his heliotrope pajamas after swimming ashore from her father's yacht.
- In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the Mafalda Hopkirk Polyjuice potion is "a pleasant heliotrope color."
- Heliotrope was a popular color reference of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, script writers of Hancock's Half Hour. In "The Last of the McHancocks", the McHancock tartan was described by Tony Hancock as, "Puce and lemon squares on a background of heliotrope; and very racy it is too" and in "Hancock's car" the said car is "Orange and Heliotrope".
- Heliotrope is one of the school colors for Purchase College, SUNY, a liberal, artsy college in the suburbs of NYC, the other color being puce.
- In the BBC series Red Dwarf episode "Terraform", Kryten's POVs lists his status as several colors, including mauve and heliotrope.
- In the BBC sci-fi drama series Doctor Who, the group of Time Lords known as the Patrexeans wear heliotrope.
[edit] References
- ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 196; Color Sample of Heliotrope: Page 131 Plate 54 Color Sample C10
- ^ Mourning Fashion:
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