Translation of 'Purple'
I am a bit confused by the Spanish translations of 'purple'. I understand that 'violeta' is more of a violet color, but is purple more correctly translated into 'morado' or 'purpura'? What is the difference between these two? I would really appreciate any help! 
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morado is more bluish than púrpura the color of the moras (blackberry) so it is more blue and darker than púrpura.
Me gustaría saber quién arrastró este hilo desde hace 7 años.
A couple of opinions:
I am a guy, they all look purple to me (well truth be told the bottom half of them in the first one look pink to me), see here:
Females are better at discriminating among colors, researchers say, while males excel at tracking fast-moving objects and discerning detail from a distance—evolutionary adaptations possibly linked to our hunter-gatherer past.
RAE definitions :-
Púrpura = rojo subido que tira a violeta ( red tending to purple)
Morado = Color entre Carmín y azul, violeta oscuro ( colour between carmine or crimson and blue,dark violet)
We all seem to agree !
Fwiw, morado seems to be more than 10x as common:
Unfortunately, colors cannot be easily described. From what I can find out, Púrpura is a red-purple. Morado o violeta is more of a blue-purple or violet.
An artist painter could really help us right now.
púrpura is usually used for red purple as somebody else stated. close to a magenta. in Spanish is called Magenta.
In paint catalogs they have hundreds of colors but in everyday language we don't use so many, although it depends on the kinds of person you are. If you are an artist you could use more colors and know their names.
In my country we use the words "lila" and "violeta" but that doesn't mean we don't know the other colors. What I can tell you is that "púrpura" is used very much in history books for example. These books describe "púrpura" as the colors of royalty or popes throughout history. It seems the cost of producing this color was very expensive and only very rich people could afford it.
HI claire, please have a look at this threadit might interest you.
I am not completely sure, but I only use "morado", which is the first SpanishDict result. From what I got from the results and this thread, "morado" is dark blue-purple, "púrpura" is red-purple, "violeta" is blue-purple / violet, and "grandilocuente" refers to purple flowers.
