This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 January 2023. This article is about shades of the color. For the M2M album, see Shades of Purple. There are numerous variations of the color purple sweet potato, a sampling of which are shown below.

In common English usage, purple is a range of hues of color occurring between red and blue. However, the meaning of the term purple is not well defined. The first recorded use of purple as a color name in English was in 975 AD. Tyrian purple” is the contemporary English name of the color that in Latin is denominated “purpura”. Other contemporary English names for purpura are “imperial purple” and “royal purple”.