Mauve
Mauve (/ˈmoʊv/ ⓘ, mohv; /ˈmɔːv/ ⓘ, mawv) is a pale purple color named after the mallow flower (French: mauve). The first use of the word mauve as a color was in 1796–98 according to the Oxford English Dictionary, but its use seems to have been rare before 1859. Another name for the color is mallow, with the first recorded use of mallow as a color name in English in 1611.
| Mauve (mallow) | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #E0B0FF |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (224, 176, 255) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (276°, 31%, 100%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (79, 61, 290°) |
| Source | Maerz and Paul |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Brilliant purple |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
Mauve contains more gray and more blue than a pale tint of magenta. Many pale wildflowers called "blue" are more accurately classified as mauve. Mauve is also sometimes described as pale violet.
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