Mauve

Mauve [ mov ] (French, mallow ') is the color of mallow, after the French name of the plant that can be classified as a pale violet.

The first artificial aniline dye, which Mauvein, is named after that color. This was discovered by accident in 1856 by the British chemist William Henry Perkin. As man-made dye he could also dye cotton. Shortly afterwards, a variety of artificial dyes has been developed, it revolutionized the dyeing industry. 1858, the first substances in Mauve were produced.

" Mauve, or violet colored silk" was mentioned by Godey 's Lady 's Book and Magazine from 1858 to 1869 as a popular fashion color of the better people by name. When Queen Victoria in 1862 for the wedding of their daughter Alice was wearing a silk, dyed with mauve gown, was large reported and the color described. Similarly enthusiastic Eugénie, wife of Napoleon III. , The yard when she wore it. Both women influenced the fashion world.

Word usage

In 1926, Thomas Beer described the 1890s under the title The mauve decade - American life at the end of the nineteenth century, no extra respond to why he calls this time mauve decade. It would therefore have been known to the reader. This name for the decade is common, especially in the United States, rare in the UK.

In the United States it was known as the symbol color for gays and lesbians. In a guide in 1940 entitled How to Sin in Hollywood a place described as follows: " When Your Urge 's Mauve, [go to] the International Café on Sunset Boulevard. The location Offered supper, drinks, and the ability to watch boy -girls who necked and sulked and little girl ... customers who look like boys " ( German: ". , When it urges you to " Mauve ", [ go to ] Cafe International on Sunset Boulevard. the restaurant offers dinner, drinks and the opportunity smooching and pouting Boy Girls [ now referred to as drag queens, note] to view and small customers, which ... look like boys. " ) on the opposite page shows a cartoon of two the "small customers ": they wear tuxedos and recognizable lipstick, and smoking a cigar. Also in the mainly London-based art language Polari was used for homosexuals: " [ S] he is mauve. " ( German: " She / he is a homosexual. " )

In the German -speaking world, the color mauve became in the 1980s a certain notoriety: In a sketch by Loriot, the colors were enumerated for the compact shelter K2000 ( " available at extra cost in Russian Green, Reed, Eggshell and Mauve " ), which the prompt demand " Mauve? " moved to yourself.

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The colors used in this article are displayed differently on each screen and are not binding. One way to calibrate the display with purely visual means approximately, offers the adjacent test pattern (only if the page is not shown zoomed ): Occurs one or more of the three gray areas a letter ( "R" for red, "G" for Green or "B" for blue ) strongly marked, the gamma correction of the corresponding monitor color channel should be corrected. The image is set to a gamma of 2.2 - the usual value for IBM-compatible computer. Apple Macintosh computers, however, use up to and including system 10.5 ( "Leopard" ) by default a gamma value of 1.8, since the System 10.6 ( "Snow Leopard" ) is gamma 2.2 are used.

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