Purple (Color). (from the vulgar Latin mōra, and this from the Latin mōrum, ‘blackberry, fruit of morality’) is a deep, dark and bluish purple color, whose original reference is the color of blackberry, that is, the infrutescence of morality (Morus nigra) .
Summary
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- 1 Meaning
- 2 Uses
- 1 Heraldry
- 2 Vexillology
- 3 The “purple banner of Castile”
- 3 Sources
Meaning
Purple arises from the combination of the energy of red and the stability of blue. It connotes royalty, power, luxury, ambition. It is also associated with nobility, wisdom, creativity, extravagance, magic and spirituality. Its diluted tones – lavenders – provoke nostalgia, feeling, aroma, making it very effective for designs that involve women as the target market. It is a widely selected color as a favorite by preschoolers. It symbolizes the grape and the blackberries. Combined with black conota Mourning, sadness, although it depends – if the business is called the “Drunk Grape” -which are raisins with wine- and it is played with purple and black, it will not give that effect, right?
Applications
Heraldry
In heraldry, purple (murrey in English) is a color whose use is limited to English-speaking nations, and yet it is rarely used. It falls into the category of heraldic colors considered “stains”, and shares origin with the sanguine color (sanguine), which it resembles. They differ in that purple has a purple hue that sanguine does not have. In engravings (or drawings in black ink), heraldic purple is represented by a network of diagonal lines.
Vexillology
In vexillology, purple is a very little used color. Due to the observation of old and weather-damaged cloths, this hue has been a source of continuous confusion with other colors such as indigo, purple, violet and crimson.
The “purple banner of Castile”
Special mention deserves the legend of the “purple banner of Castile” which, even without ever having existed, became a symbol of some protest and progressive organizations of its time, influencing the creation of the flag of the Second Spanish Republic, which its legislators described it as “red, yellow and purple”, but whose purple stripe, in practice, was represented with all kinds of more bluish variants.
