- Originally, the color purple came from a dye made from the mucus glands of a tropical sea snail known as the murex.
- Because purple dye was so difficult to obtain and expensive to produce, the color became the royal color in many parts of the world and is traditionally associated with royalty and power.
- In Japan, the color purple signifies wealth and position.
- Purple is the hardest color for the eye to distinguish.
- You may have heard the “fact” that nothing rhymes with the word purple, this is incorrect. Curple is a strap under the girth of a horse’s saddle, which stops the saddle from kicking forward. Hirple is to walk with a limp and Nurple – which is my favorite one, is the act of roughly twisting a nipple!
- The murex’s Latin name is purpura, which is where we get the word purple from.
- 26th March is Purple Day, which is a day where people dress in purple and raise awareness for Epilepsy.