This is what I came here for. Thank you.

Fuck when you put it like that, existing sounds bleak.

Mauve is next logical color IMO

There’s a reason for it, or at least an explanation for the odd color scheme. I don’t exactly remember cuz I heard it on NPR in the background. It goes something like red is bad, purple is really bad, and the people coming up with the color scheme never imagined something really really bad so maroon(red+brown) was just suggested for really really bad. And the smoke has gotten past really really bad in some places.

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/28/1184894545/how-purple-came-to-be-a-scarier-color-than-red-on-the-air-quality-index