How would you describe this colour?

[Sobloodyexhausted]

Is it mauve, lavender, lilac, pink or something else?

@toffeebutterpopcorn

Not magenta so there. Hurumph.

Come on! You know how Pantone get about new colourways. How to sell old rope and all that!

(Used to be a typesetter, pre WYSIWYG )

Oh god - I learned compositing at college and used to do hand mark ups too in my first job (I used to use those wax machines to stick down the artwork)... god how old are we???

Bloody ancient

I started with proof reading - the real kind. Truly a different language.

Oh god yes that too! Reading backwards to check spelling...

Deep lilac? Dark lilac?

It’s not pink, magenta or purple

Orchid? I would have said Puce, but it seems I’ve been using Puce wrongly.

Try orchid pink - although I've just searched for orchid pink cardigans and there seems to be a vast selection between pale pink, through the colour you want OP, to a sort of browny pink.

I agree with prickly. Chinese ground orchid

Bubblegum pink

Bright lilac

@noblegreenk

Bright lilac

Yes exactly

@toffeebutterpopcorn

Oh god yes that too! Reading backwards to check spelling...

Oooh! It isn't often you get to meet someone to share that kind of memory.

Today I am doing well. You and my first real profession and, on another thread, a couple of posters in my equally esoteric current job

Bright violet?

Pale Violet.

Although it does depend on your screen!

Heather pink

Ultra violet?

light/bright purple, though on a google image search for purple colour names, it appears to regularly defined as 'orchid'

I’d say bright lilac.

This has just reminded me of the thread where the OP asked what colour her hair was and the first reply was ‘new potato’ t’was very accurate