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

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 ...

Purple is a combination of wavelengths from opposite extremes of the spectrum, which technically deosn’t make any sense, but ...

Popular Mechanics reports that purple is a “pigment of your imagination”: The human eye doesn’t actually see purple.

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