magenta
Sign in to saveMagenta 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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- Magenta (Fuchsia)
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- FF00FF
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- X11
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- (0, 100, 0, 0)
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- Vivid purple
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23 sectionsContents
- 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
- External links
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.
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.