Quick Poll: The Results

we asked…

What feelings, ideas, and words come to your mind when you think of the color purple?

Here are the top themes from our community:

1. Power and Prestige
royalty, regal, royal, bold, rich, rare, strong, confident, smart, purposeful, fancy, loyal

Many responses reflected this traditional symbolism—royalty, nobility, and strength—highlighting power, leadership, and a sense of earned distinction.

2. Creativity and Individual Expression
creativity, whimsical, fun, happy, wild, Prince, unrestricted, professional but fun, queerness, acceptance

Purple also evokes play, self-expression, and creative freedom. These responses leaned into purple’s cultural association with eccentricity, queerness, and the imaginative—indicating that the color is seen not only as dignified but delightfully unorthodox.

3. Emotional Depth and Complexity
love, sympathy, care, hatred, deep, depth, deepness, steady, calm, unity

Here we see purple as a container for emotional nuance—holding contradictions like love and hatred, calm and boldness. Respondents associate it with inner depth and relational resonance, revealing the color’s power to hold paradox.

4. Nature and Nostalgia
violets, grapes, eggplant, spring, luscious, barney, hippies, grimace, hufflepuff

A softer, more sensory thread showed up in food, flora, and pop culture references. These words root purple in memories, tastes, and textures—offering a nostalgic or sensory experience of the color beyond metaphor or symbolism.

🧐 But wait—why these associations?

Where do these meanings come from?

Who decided purple meant this and not something else?

🚨Spoiler alerts🚨

• A snail is responsible for your beliefs about purple

• Your beliefs about the color purple are more than 3200 years old

• The color purple doesn’t even exist in reality!