I honestly wonder if it wasn’t also influenced at least a tiny bit by people wanting a decent purple named colour. I know it had always grated with me that pret

I honestly wonder if it wasn’t also influenced at least a tiny bit by people wanting a decent purple named colour. I know it had always grated with me that pretty much all the other colours were fairly well-represented, but there just wasn’t a good purple, and I regularly use rebeccapurple as a temporary colour, because of its value, not its history. (I’m not suggesting this was a conscious factor in any way, but at the same time it wouldn’t surprise me if in an alternate history where Becca’s favourite colour was green or blue that the entire thing wouldn’t have come to fruition.)