 Thus another name for this color is extreme violet.The so-called web color "violet" is in actuality not really a tint of violet, a spectral color, but is a non-spectral color.The web color violet is actually a rather pale tint of magenta because it has equal amounts of red and blue (the definition of magenta for computer display), and some of the green primary mixed in, unlike most other variants of violet that are closer to blue.