Heliotrope
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#DF73FF
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(223, 115, 255)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(286°, 55%, 100%)
Source		BF2S Color Guide
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Heliotrope is a pink-purple tint that is a representation of the color of the heliotrope flower. Web colors are colors used in designing web pages, and the methods for describing and specifying those colors. ... A representation of additive color mixing—In CRT based (analog electronics) television three color electron guns are used to stimulate such an arrangement of phosphorescent coatings of the glass, the resultant reemission of photons providing the image seen by the eye. ... Red is any of a number of similar colors evoked by light consisting predominantly of the longest wavelengths of light discernible by the human eye, in the wavelength range of roughly 625–750 nm. ... Leafy green fountain in Wattens, Austria. ... The term blue may refer to any of a number of similar colours. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... An image with the hues cyclically shifted The hues in the image of this Painted Bunting are cyclically rotated with time. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Chromaticity. ... Brightness is an attribute of visual perception in which a source appears to emit a given amount of light. ... The use of the word pink as a color first occurred in the 17th century to describe the light red flowers of pinks, flowering plants in the genus Dianthus. ... Not to be confused with Violet (color). ... Colour wheel with shading for colour picking. ... Color is an important part of the visual arts. ... Species 250-300, see text The Heliotropes (Heliotropium) is a genus of plants in the family Boraginaceae with 250 to 300 species. ...

The color heliotrope is a brilliant shade of purple. Not to be confused with Violet (color). ...

Another name for this color is vivid Lavender. Lavender is a color that is a light shade of violet. ...

The first recorded use of Heliotrope as a color name in English was in 1882. ^[1]
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Heliotrope in popular culture

Film Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ...

• 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."

Literature Old book bindings at the Merton College library. ...

• 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."

Radio Comedy Thank You, Jeeves is a Jeeves novel by P.G. Wodehouse, first published in the U.K. on March 16, 1934 by Herbert Jenkins, London, and in the United States on April 23 1931 by Little, Brown and Company, New York. ... Bertie Wooster portrayed by Hugh Laurie in ITVs Jeeves and Wooster series Bertram Wilberforce Bertie Wooster is the wealthy, good-natured co-protagonist and narrator of P. G. Wodehouses Jeeves stories. ... “HP7” redirects here. ... Radio comedy, or comedic radio programming, is a radio broadcast that may involve sitcom elements, sketches, and many other forms of comedy found on other mediums. ...

• Heliotrope was a popular colour 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".

School colors Ray Galton OBE (born 17 July 1930), and Alan Simpson OBE (born 27 November 1929), are British scriptwriters who met in 1948 at a tuberculosis sanatorium in London. ... Hancocks Half Hour was a famous BBC radio comedy series of the 1950s starring Tony Hancock. ... Biography published in 1978 (1983 paperback reprint shown) Anthony John Hancock, best known as Tony Hancock (May 12, 1924 – June 24, 1968) was a major figure in British television and radio comedy in the 1950s and 1960s. ... School colors are the colors chosen by a school to represent it on uniforms and other items of identification. ...

• 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.

Puce (noun, ) is generally considered to be dark rose to brownish-purple. ...

References

1. ^ 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

See also

• List of colors

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