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This article is about the color mauve. For the Dutch painter, see Anton Mauve. For other uses, see Mauve (disambiguation).

Mauve
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#`E0B0FF`
RGB^B	(r, g, b)	(224, 176, 255)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(276°, 31%, 97%)
Source		^[Unsourced]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Mallow wildflower

Mauve (pronounced /ˈmoʊv/ (British), rhymes with "grove";^[1] from the French form of Malva "mallow") is a pale lavender-lilac color, one of many in the range of purples.

Mauve is more grey and more blue than a pale tint of magenta would be. Many pale wildflowers called "blue" are actually mauve. Sometimes mauve can be considered a dirty pink or a shade of purple.

Mauve can also be described as pale violet.

1 Mauveine, the first aniline dye
2 Variations
3 Shades of mauve color comparison chart
4 In nature
5 In human culture
6 See also
7 References

Mauveine, the first aniline dye

Main article: Mauveine

Mauve was first named in 1856. Chemist Sir William Henry Perkin, then eighteen, was attempting to create artificial quinine. An unexpected residue caught his eye, which turned out to be the first aniline dye – specifically, mauveine, sometimes called aniline purple. Perkin was so successful in recommending his discovery to the dyestuffs industry that his biography by Simon Garfield is titled Mauve (2000)^[2].

Variations

Light mauve

Light mauve
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#`DCD0FF`
RGB^B	(r, g, b)	(220, 208, 255)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(255°, 18%, 100 ^[3]%)
Source		ISCC-NBS
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the color light mauve.

This color is also called pale lavender. The source of this color is the ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955)--Color dictionary used by stamp collectors to identify the colors of stamps—See sample of the color Lavender (R) #209 displayed on indicated page (along with several other shades of lavender): [1]

Opera mauve

Opera Mauve
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#`B784A7`
RGB^B	(r, g, b)	(183, 132, 167)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(276°, 20%, 62%)
Source		ISCC-NBS
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

At right is displayed the color opera mauve.

The first recorded use of opera mauve as a color name in English was in 1927. ^[4]

Mauve taupe

Mauve Taupe
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#`915F6D`
RGB^B	(r, g, b)	(145, 95, 109)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(285°, 37%, 54%)
Source		ISCC-NBS
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Main article: Taupe

The color displayed at right is mauve taupe.

The first recorded use of mauve taupe as a color name in English was in 1925. ^[5]

See the article on taupe to see additional shades of taupe.

Shades of mauve color comparison chart

Light Mauve (Hex: #DCD0FF) (RGB: 220, 208, 255)
Mauve (Hex: #E0B0FF) (RGB: 224, 176, 255)
Opera Mauve (Hex: #CA82AF) (RGB: 202, 130, 175)
Mauve Taupe (Hex: #AF868E) (RGB: 175, 134, 142)

In nature

Plants

The color mauve is named after the mallow flower.

Animals

Mauve Stingers are a species of jellyfish.

In human culture

Decade nostalgia

The 1890s were sometimes referred to as the "Mauve Decade", because William Henry Perkin's aniline dye mauveine allowed the widespread use of that color in fashion. When Perkins accidentally discovered that he was able to chemically make the color purple (mauve), he began the world's search for other colors through chemistry. Now, many colors are chemically made instead of taken from natural sources. Chemistry also became a more profitable career.
Mauve became very popular in the 1890s and became associated with homosexuality because well known figures in the art world during that decade were gay such as author Oscar Wilde and artist Aubrey Beardsley. By the 1950s, lavender came to symbolize homosexuality, and then pink beginning in the 1970s (Nazi Germany used pink triangle badges to denote homosexuals that had been sent to concentration camps, the origin of the use in the 1970s of the pink triangle symbol to represent gay liberation).
The Mauve Decade^[6] was the title of a 1926 Thomas Beer (1889–1940) book about the 1890s in the United States. Beer, looking back on this time, believed the United States was moving away from its New England traditions to a time of "decay and meaningless phrases". He took the title from a quote^[7] from artist James Whistler: "Mauve is just pink trying to be purple."

Genomics

Mauve is the name of a multiple genome alignment tool under development at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Metaphysics

In Hermetic Kabbalism, the "false sephiroth" Da'ath is commonly associated with mauve, largely owing to the writings of occultist Kenneth Grant.

Television

In the British science fiction TV show Doctor Who, mauve is the universal color for danger (Earth is an exception).
In an episode of the kids television series Hey Arnold! the protagonist Arnold and his friends Sid and Stinky enter into a Go Kart race with their Go Kart "The Dark Avenger." Their friend Eugene also enters the race with his go kart, named "The Mauve Storm." When both their respective Go Karts get wrecked, they combine them and aptly name the new Go Kart "The Mauve Avenger".
Television host David Letterman once stated jokingly that "you know somebody is gay if they know the difference between mauve and taupe."

Theatre

Mauve is a commonly used color in stage lighting to represent sunsets.
In Angels in America, Louis identifies the color of the sunset as "purple", to which Belize replies: "Purple? What kind of a homosexual are you, anyway? That's not purple, Mary, that color out there is mauve."
In Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's 1988 musical Into the Woods, Cinderella's stepsisters return from the Prince's ball to comment "Never wear mauve at a ball."

References

^ Brians, Paul. "Mauve". Common Errors in English. Washington State University. http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/mauve.html. Retrieved 2008-02-26.
^ Garfield, S. (2000). Mauve: How One Man Invented a Colour That Changed the World. Faber and Faber, London, UK. ISBN 978-0571201976.
^ web.forrett.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code #DCD0FF (Light Mauve):
^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 200; Color Sample Page 107 Plate 42 Color Sample H5--Opera Mauve
^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 203; Color Sample of Mauve Taupe Page 37 Plate 7 Color Sample C8--Mauve Taupe
^ Thomas Beer: The mauve decade - American life at the end of the nineteenth century, 1926, at gaslight.mtroyal.ab.ca
^ NON-FICTION: Resurrection, Time Magazine, 1926-07-05

Shades of red
Alizarin	Amaranth	American Rose	Burnt sienna	Burgundy	Candy apple red	Cardinal	Carmine	Carnelian	Cerise

Chestnut	Coquelicot	Coral red	Crimson	Dark pink	Dogwood rose	Falu red	Fire engine red	Flame	Fuchsia

Lava	Lust	Magenta	Maroon	Mauve	Mauve taupe	Orange-red	OU Crimson Red	Persian red	Persimmon

Pink	Puce	Raspberry	Red	Red-violet	Rose	Rose madder	Rosewood	Rosso corsa	Ruby

Rufous	Rust	Sangria	Scarlet	Terra cotta	Tuscan red	Upsdell red	UP Maroon	Venetian red	Vermilion

The samples shown above are representative only.

Shades of violet
Amethyst	Byzantium	Cerise	Eggplant	Fandango	Fuchsia	Han purple	Heliotrope	Indigo	Iris

Lavender (floral)	Lavender	Lavender Blush	Lilac	Magenta	Mauve	Orchid	Palatinate purple	Periwinkle	Persian blue

Purple	Red-violet	Rose	Sangria	Thistle	Tyrian purple	Violet	Wisteria

The samples shown above are representative only.

Categories: Shades of red | Shades of violet

Simple English

This box shows the colour mauve.

This is an article about the colour mauve. For information on the Flemish painter, see Anton Mauve.

Mauve (pronounce to rhyme with "Jove" and "stove") is a pale purple colour. It is similar to lavender and lilac. The name comes from French form of malva meaning the "mallow" flower.

Another name for this color is mallow.

The first recorded use of mallow as a color name in English was in 1611. ^[1]

In 1856, an eighteen year old Chemist William Henry Perkin was trying to make artificial quinine. An unexpected residue caught his eye. It turned out to be the first aniline dye, mauveine.

1 Meaning of mauve
2 Tones of mauve colour comparison chart
3 References
4 Other pages

Meaning of mauve

Mauve became very popular in the 1890s. This decade was sometimes referred to as the Mauve Decade, because William Henry Perkin's aniline dye allowed the widespread use of that colour in fashion.

The colour mauve became associated with homosexuality because well known figures in the art world during the 1890s--a decade that was called the Mauve Decade--were gay such as author Oscar Wilde and artist Aubrey Beardsley.