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Thanks to clever marketing—you know, the commercials where the lady cracks a raw egg in her hand—and a strong social media presence, direct-to-consumer mattress company Purple is increasingly on ...

Many of us develop strong attachments to particular colors, but purple brings out the most focused and enthusiastic devotion. What makes purple so distinctive? Part of the answer comes from optics.

Purple doesn’t actually exist in the visible light spectrum because it’s a nonspectral color created when your brain compensates for the conflicting signals from red and blue wavelengths hitting your ...