In other words, it brings red and blue together to make purple and magenta, even though that's not what light is really doing. As a result, purple and magenta are known as "nonspectral" colors, ...

Well, despite what you may have come to believe, violet is not purple. In fact, violet (along with the rest of the colors in a naturally occurring rainbow) has something purple doesn’t—its own ...

The color purple is, in a way, invented by our brains. That's because purple may be made up by our brains; It exists only because of how the brain processes color.