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Hey, I didnt know this for a really long time.
Violet as a color these days is always shown as a deep purple, at least in my eyes. Besides, violet pigments are purple, and every picture of a rainbow I saw as a kid had purple in it, so when I learned about the color spectrum at first, I assumed violet was purple, and when I saw it in the textbook, it violet legitimately looked purple to me, and still does.

I blame my slightly colorblind eyes.

In the traditional color wheel used by painters, violet and purple are both placed between red and blue. Purple occupies the space closer to red, between crimson and violet.[13] Violet is closer to blue, and usually less intense and bright than purple.

From the point of view of optics, violet is a real color: it occupies its own place at the end of the visible spectrum, and was one of the seven spectral colors of the spectrum first described by Isaac Newton in 1672.

In the additive color system, used to create colors on a computer screen or on a color television, violet is simulated by purple, by combining blue light at high intensity with a less intense red light on a black screen. The range of purples is created by combining blue and red light of any intensities; the chromaticities formed this way line along the "line of purples".

While the scientific definition is clear, the cultural definitions are more varied. The color called purple by the French, pourpre, contains more red and half the amount of blue of the color called purple in the United States and the U.K..[14] In German, a more reddish color is sometimes called Purpurrot ("purple-red") to avoid confusion.