While violet hits your eye with a specific wavelength, purple only exists in your perception — a clever construct built from conflicting input.

Scientists have revealed that purple, a popular color often associated with royalty, is fake. A figment of our imaginations.

It turns out that one of the colors we see in the world every single day is actually just a pigment of our imagination — er, sorry, figment of our imagination. Scientists say it's a sort of collective ...

Colors are one of the first things people learn about in school. Well, you might have to start re-learning. At least, when it comes to one color people think is on the spectrum. Popular Mechanics ...

The human eye does not actually see purple, as purple is not a color on ... deosn’t make any sense, but our brains evolved a solution. When we “see” a combination of blue and red wavelengths ...