Purple is not just a joyful color. It is associated with nobility, royalty, and ambition. It goes best with different colors and shades and it looks good on almost everything as well. If you are a purple lover or not, we have got you some interesting facts about the color purple that you never heard of!

1- The color purple has a physical effect on people. It makes you more creative and calms your nerves and mind.

2- The color purple originally came from mucus glands of a tropical sea snail.

3- There are more than 60 flowers species in the world that is purple.

4- The snail that produces the purple mucus is called the murex which is purpura in Latin, and this is the reason behind the name ‘’purple’’.

5- Purple dye was very expensive historically and incredibly hard to find. That is why only the rich and powerful used to use it.

6- The phrase “Born to the purple” means born into a royal or noble family.

7- The Archbishop of Cyprus is allowed to sign official papers in purple ink.

8- Purple is the color of epilepsy awareness as it is associated with lavender that is a traditional herbal treatment for the disease.

9- There is a movie called ‘’The Color Purple”. It was released in 1985 and nominated for 11 Oscars.

10- There is a Purple day that is 26th of March where people dress up in purple and raise awareness for epilepsy.

11- Purple is considered a non-spectral color. As it is not one of the colors on the spectrum and it doesn’t have its own wavelength of light.

12- There is too many shades of purple everyone can name like lavender, lilac, mauve, indigo, eggplant, plum, violet, orchid, pomegranate, and puce

13- The hit ‘’Purple Rain” won an Oscar in 1984 for the best original song.

Those were the 13 reasons, but if you are looking for more reasons. Joi Gifts is preparing a purple gift for you! Stay tuned and wait for our mega purple surprise!