Magenta

This article is about the dye color magenta. For other uses, see Magenta (disambiguation).''

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Magenta is a color that is not a spectral color: that is to say, the hue cannot be generated by light of a single wavelength. A magenta hue is generated by mixing equal amounts of red and blue light. As such, magenta is the complement of green: magenta pigments absorb green light. With yellow and cyan, it constitutes the three subtractive primary colors.

Magenta was one of the first aniline dyes, discovered shortly after the Battle of Magenta (1859), which occurred near the town of Magenta in northern Italy. The color is named after the battle, and hence indirectly after the town.

The difference between magenta and purple is the amount of red/blue in the color.

The color magenta is sometimes also known as Fuchsia after the color of the flowers of the same name, named after Leonard Fuchs.

When the color magenta is used in board games or in other contexts without a corresponding red or pink color for comparison, it is commonly but incorrectly called pink.

Color coordinates

Hex triplet = #FF00FF
RGB    (r, g, b)    =  (255, 0, 255)
CMYK   (c, m, y, k) =  (0, 255, 0, 0)
HSV    (h, s, v)    =  (300, 100, 100)

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