What Color Is Indigo? Turns Out There's Some Heated Debate Around This In-Between Shade

Image of a blue living room with an artistic blue and indigo wallpaper on the walls. There is a traditional indigo sofa with a wooden frame and a matching accent chair. The floors are made of a black-and-white checkered tile, and there is a wooden table and chair just in the frame.

Blue may be a universally beloved color for interiors, but it encompasses a vast number of different hues and tones, and that includes the highly complex, hotly-debated, and hard-to-define shade, indigo.

But what color is indigo? Turns out, that's a big question. A mix of blue and purple — and affectionately known in the Livingetc office as 'blurple' — indigo sits on the color spectrum directly between blue and violet. Its close proximity to both tones has been the cause for heated debate over how to accurately define it, with some questioning whether it's actually different enough from either shade to warrant its own spot on the spectrum.