ourple
A hybrid color name popularized by YouTuber Mark Rober during a viral 2024 video about why some people see a shade as more purple while others see it as more orange.
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A hybrid color name popularized by YouTuber Mark Rober during a viral 2024 video about why some people see a shade as more purple while others see it as more orange. Used jokingly online to settle ambiguous color debates similar to ‘the dress.’ It also turns up in casual posts about anything that sits awkwardly between purple and orange, from sunsets to clothing. Treat as playful internet vocabulary rather than a real color term.
Is that shirt purple or orange? Idk, it’s ourple.
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- purple58%
A colour between red and blue; violet, though often closer to magenta.
- purple57%
(colour theory) Any non-spectral colour on the line of purples on a colour chromaticity diagram or a colour wheel between violet and red.
- The Dress56%
(Internet slang) A dress, a photograph of which became an online viral phenomenon in 2015 as debate raged over whether it was blue and black or white and gold.
- aubergine55%
A dark purple colour; eggplant.
- eggplant55%
(US, Canada) A dark purple color, like that of the skin of this fruit.