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magenta

Also known as red–purple

Magenta is a purplish-red color. On color wheels of the RGB and CMYK color models, it is located directly midway between blue and red. It is one of the 4 colors of subtractive ink used in color printing by most color printers, also known as CMYK along with yellow, cyan, and black to make all the other colors and hues. The tone of magenta used in printing, printer's magenta, is redder than the magenta of the RGB (additive) model, the former being closer to rose.

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Magenta is a purplish-red color that sits between blue and red on color wheels used in digital and print design. It's one of the four essential inks (along with cyan, yellow, and black) that color printers use to reproduce all other colors on paper.

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Color.title: Magenta (Fuchsia)
Color.hex: FF00FF
Color.source: X11
Color.cmyk: (0, 100, 0, 0)
Color.caption: Clockwise, from top left: swan boat on a pond in Tokyo; Ceratodoris rosacea; Callyspongia aculeata; pagri of an Ahirai dancer in India; Orchidaceae flowers
Color.isccname: Vivid purple

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Image: MagentaIcon.png

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Commons category: Magenta (colour)
sRGB color hex triplet: FF00FF
name in kana: マジェンタ
CSS color keyword: magenta

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In optics and color science
Fuchsia and magenta
Gallery
History
Fuchsine and magenta dye (1859)
Process magenta (pigment magenta; printer's magenta) (1890s)
Web colors magenta and fuchsia
In science and culture
In art
In literature
In film
In astronomy
In biology: magenta insects, birds, fish, and mammals
In botany
In business
In public transport
In transportation
In numismatics
In vexillology and heraldry
In politics
See also
References
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Magenta took its name from an aniline dye made and patented in 1859 by the French chemist François-Emmanuel Verguin, who originally called it fuchsine. It was renamed to celebrate the French-Sardinian victory under French Emperor Napoleon III at the Battle of Magenta against the larger army of the Austrian Empire on 4 June 1859 near the Italian town of Magenta, at the time in Austria. This battle was decisive in liberating Italy from Austrian domination.