Results: The Color Purple -- Pantone Color Of The Year For 2018
Published on 12/10/2017
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The Pantone Color Institute announced recently that purple will reign as the color of the year in 2018 — specifically, the shade Ultra Violet, which comes from the melding of blue and red. Pantone hopes the blue and red, the colors used to designate America's liberal and conservative politics, can become a more harmonious purple. "It's also the most complex of all colors because it takes two shades that are seemingly diametrically opposed — blue and red — and brings them together to create something new," said Leatrice Eiseman, Pantone's executive director. Do you like the color purple and its apparent significance?
Love/like it and the significance
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633 votes
Love/like the color, but not the significance
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418 votes
Do not like the color, although I like the significance
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103 votes
Do not like the color or the significance
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128 votes
Not sure
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327 votes
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The announcement will certainly please Prince fans, who favored the shade throughout his career. Pantone honored "The Purple One" in August with a custom hue called "Love Symbol #2." Prince died in April 2016. Besides being synonymous with Prince, how many of these other purple music facts are you familiar with?
Very aware of the importance of purple to Prince -- Purple Rain, his love of wearing purple, his nickname "The Purple One"
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720 votes
Deep Purple is a popular rock band.
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612 votes
"Deep Purple" is also the name of a popular song that was the favorite of Babe Ruth.
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"Purple Haze" is one Jimi Hendrix's most popular songs.
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"Purple People Eater" was one of the biggest rock and roll hits of 1958.
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The Mulberry Purple is a popular modern rock band.
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Purple is a 1994 album by the band Stone Temple Pilots.
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Purple is the name of a track by rap artist Nas.
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The New Riders of the Purple Sage is an American country rock band. The group emerged from the psychedelic rock scene in San Francisco in 1969, and its original lineup included members of the Grateful Dead.
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Purple is the color worn by Jeff Fatt and later Lachlan Gillespie of the children's musical group The Wiggles.
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Purple Ribbon Records is a hip-hop record label owned by rapper Big Boi of the rap duo Outkast.
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Purple words (on a grey background) are referenced by Neil Young in Cowgirl in the Sand as a more accessible and appropriate form of purple prose perhaps
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None
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The color purple is often associated with royalty, nobility, luxury, power, and ambition. Purple also represents meanings of wealth, extravagance, creativity, wisdom, dignity, grandeur, devotion, peace, pride, mystery, independence, and magic. What other purple facts did you know?
Throughout history, purple robes were worn by royalty and people of authority or high rank. Many believe this to be true because the rare occurrence of purple in nature made it one of the most expensive color dyes to create.
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The United States Military awards the Purple Heart to soldiers that have been wounded or killed during action. This purple honor was established by George Washington in 1782.
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The once Emperors of Rome, Augustus and Julius Caesar declared only the Emperor would be aloud to wear purple.
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The ancient city of Phoenicia (on a Greek island) means Land of the Purple. This is believed to be where purple was first produced.
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Purple is a non-spectral color. It is not one of the colors on the visible spectrum and does not have its own wavelength of light.
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145 votes
Purple Day, the International Day of Epilepsy Awareness, is held every year on March 26. Purple is the colour for epilepsy awareness because of the association with lavender, which is a traditional herbal treatment for the disease.
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112 votes
The colour purple originally came from a dye made from mucus glands of a tropical sea snail. The snail is known as the murex but its Latin name was purpura, which gave us the word purple.
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105 votes
The Archbishop of Cyprus is traditionally allowed to sign official papers in purple ink.
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All of them
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None of them
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And, on to some more fun facts about purple. How many did you know?
Porphyrophobia is fear of the color purple.
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There is only one nation with purple in its flag; Dominica.
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The 'purple people bridge' is a purple pedestrian bridge that connects Cincinnati, Ohio with Newport, Kentucky.
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Violet, or purple, eyes are extremely rare.
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In Thailand, purple is the color of mourning for widows.
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It's not true that there's no word rhyming with purple: there's curple (a strap on a horse's saddle), hirple (walk with a limp) and turple (to fall over).
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None
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Finally, which of these purple movies have you seen?
The Color Purple
41%
654 votes
Purple Rain
32%
511 votes
The Purple Rose Of Cairo
8%
124 votes
Purple Violets
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53 votes
Purple Butterfly
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40 votes
Purple Noon
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46 votes
Purple Hearts
4%
70 votes
The Purple Gang
2%
40 votes
The Sea Purple
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23 votes
All
2%
26 votes
None
39%
625 votes
Other (please specify)
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5 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
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| 0.23% | 5 |
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