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How to Make Purple
Learn how to make the color purple. Find out which two colors make purple paint and food coloring and how to make it dark and light.
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How to Easily Make Purple
The way to make purple is by mixing red and blue. Be sure to not use too much blue to start. Therefore, begin with a very small amount of blue and as more until you get the color you want.
To get some sort of purple color is easy, but getting the correct shade you want can be difficult. This makes getting the right tone for your project or craft more challenging.
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What Two Colors Make Purple?
Blue and red make purple. I recommend you start with red and then gradually add blue to it.
It doesn’t matter what you’re using, whether paint (including fabric paint) or food coloring or something else, the process is the same.
How To Mix Purple In Acrylic Paints, Dye or Markers
Okay, I looked ALL over to find an easy, plain English version of how to make purple and there wasn’t a great, all in one for the different purple colors.
Here is my process… I found a color that matched in Hex# (those are computer numbers), then found the RGB (red, green, blue) and the CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, black). Which is helpful for normal people, so I added my two cents in after that!
How To Make Purple
Hex #660066
50% Red, 50% Blue
C 68%, M 100%, Y 26%, K 18%
This color purple is straight half red, half blue
How To Make Lavender
Hex #e6e6ff
50% Red, 50% Blue, Add White
C 8%, M 8%, Y 0%, K 0%
This color How To Make Aubergine
Aubergine
Hex #3d0734
51% Red, 43% Blue, 6% Black
C 76%, M 95%, Y 45%, K 58%
This is a bit more red, mixed with blue, add black
How To Make Mauve
Mauve
Hex #b784a7
38% Red, 35% Blue, 27% Green
C 29%, M 54%, Y 14%, K 0%
This is a little bit more blue than red, add a little yellow
How To Make Plum
Plum
Hex #8e4585
41% Red, 39% Blue, 20% Green
C 50%, M 86%, Y 17%, K 2%
This is a little bit more red than blue, and maybe a wee bit of yellow
How To Make Violet
Violet
Hex #7f00ff
33% Red, 67% Blue
C 69%, M 79%, Y 0%, K 0%
This is 2/3 blue and 1/3 red
How To Make Amethyst
Amethyst
Hex #9966ce
34% Red, 44% Blue, 22% Green
C 49%, M 67%, Y 0%, K 0%
This a bit more blue than red and a little bit of yellow
The Color Purple Controversy!
Okay, when I was trying to figure out how to make a nice little chart for myself to know how to make purple, I was unaware how many people have strong feelings about the color purple.
Your wine is someone else’s aubergine and my purple is your plum… ack!
As an artist, don’t get hung up on using the “right” color, after spending hours looking at different purples, I can tell you there is no consensus on what the colors actually mean!
Purple FAQs
Okay, here are some questions that people ask about purple!
What is a complimentary color to purple?
I love this color wheel because it shows the tints and shades, as well as the other colors!
As you can see, yellow is the directly complimentary color to purple (and colors that we call purple are really outside that range so Mauve would look better with green and violet would look better with gold.
Mauve and lime are one of my all time favorite color combinations, as are teal and red. You can see why because they are directly across the color wheel from each other!
Do purple and green go together?
Purple, green and orange are on the opposite corners of the color wheel, pretty far apart when you think of it! With that in mind I would NOT use true green, true orange and true purple unless you wanted to make a jarring painting!
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What 2 colours make purple?
If you mix red and blue, you are sure to get purple. But there are some other colours from which you can get the purple colour. Let me share how to get purple by mixing other colours.
Mix magenta and cyan:
Yes, it is true that by mixing cyan and magenta, you can get purple. Make sure to mix equal portions of both of these colours and get your vibrant purple instantly.
Mix red and purple:
There is another way to get a muted purple. To get this colour, you will have to mix red and purple.
You can always add white to purple for a light shade; black to purple to get a dark purple; or other colours as per your requirement.
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