Mauve
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This article is about the color mauve. For other uses, see Mauve (disambiguation).
Mauve (/ˈmoʊv/ ⓘ, mohv;[2] /ˈmɔːv/ ⓘ, mawv) is a pale purple color[3][4] named after the mallow flower (French: mauve). The first use of the word mauve as a color was in 1796–98 according to the Oxford English Dictionary, but its use seems to have been rare before 1859. Another name for the color is mallow,[5] with the first recorded use of mallow as a color name in English in 1611.[6]
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Mauve (mallow) | |
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Color coordinates | |
Hex triplet | #E0B0FF |
sRGBB (r, g, b) | (224, 176, 255) |
HSV (h, s, v) | (276°, 31%, 100%) |
CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (79, 61, 290°) |
Source | Maerz and Paul[1] |
ISCC–NBS descriptor | Brilliant purple |
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) |
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Mauve contains more gray and more blue than a pale tint of magenta. Many pale wildflowers called "blue" are more accurately classified as mauve. Mauve is also sometimes described as pale violet.