Heliotrope (color)

Heliotrope
 
Heliotrope flowers
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet #DF73FF
sRGBB  (r, g, b) (223, 115, 255)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k) (13, 55, 0, 0)
HSV       (h, s, v) (286°, 55%, 100%)
Source Maerz and Paul[1]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Heliotrope is a pink-purple tint that is a representation of the colour of the heliotrope flower.

The first recorded use of heliotrope as a color name in English was in 1882.[2]


Variations of heliotrope

Heliotrope gray

Heliotrope Gray
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet #AA98A9
sRGBB  (r, g, b) (170, 152, 169)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k) (0, 11, 1, 33)
HSV       (h, s, v) (303°, 11%, 67[3]%)
Source ISCC-NBS[4]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

The color heliotrope gray is displayed at right. The first recorded use of heliotrope gray as a colour name in English was in 1912.[5]

The source of this colour is: ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Colour Names (1955)--Colour Sample of Heliotrope Gray (color sample #227)


Old heliotrope

Old Heliotrope
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet #563C5C
sRGBB  (r, g, b) (86, 60, 92)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k) (7, 35, 0, 64)
HSV       (h, s, v) (289°, 35%, 36[6]%)
Source ISCC NBS
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

At right is displayed the colour old heliotrope.

Another name for this colour is old helio.

The first recorded use of old helio as a colour name in English was in 1926.[7]


Heliotrope in culture

  • The color has been widely referenced as a characterization, the colour of key plot objects, or as flavor text in many works:
    • Heliotrope was a popular colour reference of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, script writers of Hancock's Half Hour.
    • In James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, "heliotrope" is the answer to the Maggies' riddle. Throughout the chapter, the word "heliotrope" is disguised a number of times, hidden either in anagrams, riddles, puns, or obscure allusions.
  • The periorbital purplish discoloration occurring in dermatomyositis is called the "Heliotrope rash" after the colour.
  • Heliotrope was among the handful of "half-mourning" colours worn by Victorians during the last stage of mourning.[8]
  • "Heliotrope" is the title of the fourth track on At the Drive-In's 1999 EP Vaya.

See also

References

  1. ↑ The color displayed in the color box above matches the color called heliotrope in the 1930 book by Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill; the colour heliotrope is displayed on page 131, Plate 54, Color Sample C10.
  2. ↑ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Colour, New York: 1930 McGraw-Hill Page 196; Color Sample of Heliotrope: Page 131 Plate 54 Colour Sample C10
  3. ↑ web.forret.com Colour Conversion Tool set to hex code #AA98A9 (Heliotrope Gray):
  4. ↑ Of the various tones of Heliotrope Gray shown on the indicated web page of the ISCC-NBS colour list, the color displayed in the colour box above, colour sample #227, matches most closely the colour called Heliotrope Gray in the 1930 book by Maerz and Paul, A Dictionary of Colour, New York: 1930 McGraw-Hill; the colour Heliotrope Gray is displayed on page 111, Plate 44, Color Sample C3.
  5. ↑ Maerz and Paul, A Dictionary of Colour, New York: 1930 McGraw-Hill, Page 196; Colour Sample of Heliotrope Gray: Page 111, Plate 44, Colour Sample C3
  6. ↑ web.forret.com Colour Conversion Tool set to hex code of colour #563C5C (Old Heliotrope):
  7. ↑ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York: 1930 McGraw-Hill Page 200; Color Sample of Old Helio: Page 113 Plate 45 Color Sample J9
  8. ↑ Mourning Fashion
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