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The Secret Lives of Color

99% Invisible

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The Color of Tyran Purple

The colour for a pigment, it can be pretty rare in nature. Tends to require the wholesale slaughter of an entire species to make it happen. Which a sort of brings me to a tyrian purple. Can you talk about tyrin purple? Yes. This is one of my favorite stories from this book,. Many people have this automatic association between royalty and purple. A but actually, the link goes really far back. And it is based on this amazing purple dye called terean purple. It comes from two varieties of shell fish that are native to the mediterranean. You know, they wre catching and using so many of these shellfish that actually, they kind of almost form geographical

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