Post XXI - Protagonist

A. Maerz and M. A. Paul talk about the amaranth color in their Dictionary of Color being one of the main ways for people to acknowledge about this color. The book is from New York, 1930 McGraw Hill Book Company and Amaranth is spoke of in page 189; Color Sample of Amaranth in page 127.

The color mentioned in the book is actually known today as Amaranth Deep Purple tone but it's referred as Amaranth. 

"amaranth - The reddish-purple or deep crimson colour of the leaves of the Amarantus. The words amarantin, amarantine and amaranthine, signifying ‘fadeless’, ‘immortal’ or ‘unwithering’, refer to Pliny’s imaginary and never fading amaranth flower. Also a purple food additive (E123)."