Not exactly the color scheme for an Architectural Digest layout. Or a red carpet evening. Some might even say the combination is gauche. But if you live in New Orleans, the purple, green and gold ...

The colors of Mardi Gras first surfaced in New Orleans, but it's not clear why purple, green and gold were chosen. Those colors appeared in 1872 as part of a spectacle honoring the New Orleans ...

Why these three colors. Now that we know why Mardi Gras is associated with three colors, let’s examine why purple, green and gold. While it was long thought that the colors were selected to ...

Do the purple, gold, and green campaigns of 2018 reflect the simmering conflicts within the ... using a map and a color scheme that had first shown up a few days earlier on NBC’s sister ...