Magenta
| Magenta | |
|---|---|
 Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #FF00FF |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (255, 0, 255) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (300°, 100%, 100%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (60, 137, 308°) |
| Source | X11 |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
Magenta is a purple color that can be made from a mixture of red and blue light. On the color wheel, it lies halfway between violet and rose.[citation needed]
In popular usage, the term magenta itself can be used to indicate a variety of colors.
Magenta is a nonspectral color, meaning it cannot be generated by a single wavelength of light.[1]
History of magenta dye
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.[2] The dye is used in coloring textiles or leather, in carbolfuchsin paint, in Schiff's reagent, and as a biological stain. It is made by oxidizing a mixture of aniline and toluidines, creating C20H19N3HCl, a dark green water-soluble dyestuff that forms a brilliant bluish red dye in solutions.[3][4][5]
The dye magenta may also be called fuschin (not to be confused with the pigment fuscin), fuschine or roseine, but only magenta is used as the name of the color.[6][3][4][7] The dye name fuschin derives from the 16th century German botanist and physician Leonhard Fuchs, for whom the genus Fuchsia was named in 1753.[4] Both the color fuchsia and the dye fuchsin were named because of the vivid reddish-purple color of many flowers in the genus Fuchsia.[4]
Historical development of magenta
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| Rich magenta | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #CA1F7B |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (202, 31, 123) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (328°, 85%, 79%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (46, 100, 347°) |
| Source | Internet[failed verification] |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
Rich magenta (original variation) (1860)
Before printer's magenta was invented in the 1890s for CMYK printing, and electric magenta was invented in the 1980s for computer displays, these two artificially engineered colors were preceded by the color displayed at right, which is the color originally called magenta made from coal tar dyes in the year 1859.[8] Besides being called original magenta, it is also called rich magenta to distinguish it from the colors electric magenta and printer's magenta shown below.
This color corresponds to the Prismacolor colored pencil magenta.
| Process magenta (subtractive primary, sRGB approximation) | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #FF0090 |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (255, 0, 144) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (326°, 100%, 100%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (55, 137, 350°) |
| Source | [1] CMYK |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
Process magenta (pigment magenta; printer's magenta) (1890s)
In color printing, the color called process magenta, or pigment magenta, or printer's magenta is one of the three primary pigment colors which, along with yellow and cyan, constitute the three subtractive primary colors of pigment. (The secondary colors of pigment are blue, green, and red.) As such, the hue magenta, is the complement of green: magenta pigments absorb green light; thus magenta and green are opposite colors.
The CMYK printing process was invented in the 1890s, when newspapers began to publish color comic strips.
Process magenta is not an RGB color, and there is no fixed conversion from CMYK primaries to RGB. Different formulations are used for printer's ink, so there can be variations in the printed color that is pure magenta ink. A typical formulation of process magenta is shown in the color box at right. The source of the color shown at right is the color magenta that is shown in the diagram located at the bottom of the following website offering tintbooks for CMYK printing: [2]. A printer’s magenta is usually out of gamut on a computer display, so the color at right is only an approximation.
In Prismacolor colored pencils, this color (Prismacolor PC 994) is called process red (it would have been more accurate to call it process magenta). The Prismacolor colored pencil process red color is not quite as saturated as the color process magenta shown above.
| Magenta (additive secondary) | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #FF00FF |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (255, 0, 255) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (300°, 100%, 100%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (60, 137, 308°) |
| Source | X11 |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
Electric magenta (additive secondary magenta) (web color fuchsia) (1990s)
Electric magenta, shown at the right, is one of the three secondary colors in the RGB color model. For computer color rendition, that specific hue of magenta composed of equal parts of red and blue light was termed the web color fuchsia and was assigned as an alias for the RGB code of magenta on a list of standardized web colors. "Electric" magenta and fuchsia are exactly the same color. Sometimes electric magenta is called electronic magenta.
The color fuchsia is named after the color of the flowers of the Fuchsia plant, named after Leonhart Fuchs, although most of the flowers of the plant are not quite so bright.
Electric magenta vs. pigment magenta
Note that while both of these colors are called magenta they are actually substantially different from one another. Printer's (or pigment) magenta (the color used for magenta printing ink) is much less vivid than the color electric magenta achievable on a computer screen--indeed, CMYK printing technology cannot accurately reproduce pure magenta as described above as electric magenta (1/2 100% blue light + 1/2 100% red light=magenta) on paper. To see the difference between electric magenta and printer's magenta, compare the two magentas (additive and subtractive) in the two charts in the Primary colors article.
When electric magenta is reproduced on paper, it is called fuchsia and it is physically impossible for it to appear on paper as vivid as on a computer screen. In order to reproduce it, a small amount of cyan printer's ink must be added to printer's magenta to make fuchsia, and therefore fuchsia is not a primary color of pigment--it is the color of printer's magenta that is one of the primary colors of pigment (along with cyan and yellow).
The name fuchsia was chosen as the alias for electric magenta because that is the color name for the color that in printed reproduction is its equivalent.
Since prior to the introduction of personal computers magenta was synonymous with printer's magenta, colored pencils and crayons called "magenta" are usually colored the color of process magenta (printer's magenta) shown above.
Additional variations of magenta
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| Pale Magenta | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #F984EF |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (249, 132, 239) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (305°, 47%, 98%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (71, 86, 312°) |
| Source | BF2S Color Guide |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
Pale Magenta (Light Fuchsia Pink)
Displayed at right is the color pale magenta.
This color is also called light fuchsia pink.
| Light Magenta | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #FF77FF |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (255, 119, 255) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (300°, 53%, 100%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (71, 103, 308°) |
| Source | [Unsourced] |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
Light Magenta (Fuchsia Pink)
Displayed at right is the color light magenta.
This color is also called fuchsia pink.
| Ultra Pink | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #FF6FFF |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (255, 111, 255) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (300°, 56%, 100%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (69, 108, 308°) |
| Source | Crayola |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
Ultra Pink
Displayed at right is the color ultra pink.
This is a Crayola crayon color formulated in 1972. In 1990 the name was changed in error to shocking pink; however, properly speaking, the name shocking pink should be reserved for only the original shocking pink invented by Elsa Schiaparelli in 1936 (shown below).
| Inkjet Magenta | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #DD1470 |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (221, 20, 112) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (333°, 91%, 87%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (48, 120, 355°) |
| Source | Internet |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
Inkjet magenta
Inkjet magenta is a variation of the process magenta shown above that is used in many inkjet printers.
| Shocking Pink | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #FC0FC0 |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (252, 15, 192) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (315°, 94%, 99%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (57, 124, 331°) |
| Source | BF2S Color Guide |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
Shocking pink
Shocking Pink, (also sometimes called neon pink) is bold and intense. Fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli formulated this color in 1936, naming it shocking pink; it was the color of the box her perfume called Shocking Pink came in (the box was shaped like the torso of film star Mae West).
| Hot Magenta | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #FF00CC |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (255, 0, 204) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (312°, 100%, 100%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (58, 127, 327°) |
| Source | Crayola |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
Hot Magenta
Crayola introduced their Hot Magenta colored crayon in 1972, in a boxed set of eight crayons called "Fluorescent 8."[9] Crayola Properties Inc. filed for trademark protection of "Hot Magenta" in 2007, amidst a growing number of color trademarks.[10][11] Deutsche Telekom, the corporate parent of international mobile phone company T-Mobile, won a 2003 German ruling valued at up to US$20 billion affirming their trademark claim on the color magenta.[11][12][13]
| T-Mobile Magenta | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #E4238E |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (228, 35, 142) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (327°, 85%, 89%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (51, 113, 346°) |
| Source | Internet |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
Deutsche Telekom Magenta (T-Mobile Magenta)
Displayed at right is the color Deutsche Telekom magenta, otherwise known as T-Mobile Magenta. This is the color of their new magenta cellular phone, which debuted in February 2007.
The source of this color is the following website: [3]
| Sky Magenta | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #CF71AF |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (207, 113, 175) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (320°, 45%, 81%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (60, 62, 329°) |
| Source | eBay |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
Sky Magenta
Displayed at right is the color sky magenta. This color was one of the colors in the set of Venus Paradise colored pencils, a popular brand of colored pencils in the 1950s. This color was sampled directly from the image of the actual colored pencil in a picture of a set of Venus colored pencils for sale on eBay.
This color is also called medium lavender.
| Deep Magenta | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #CC00CC |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (204, 0, 204) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (300°, 100%, 80%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (49, 110, 308°) |
| Source | Hexcode Color Chart |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
Deep magenta
Displayed at right is the color deep magenta.
| Dark Magenta | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #8B008B |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (139, 0, 139) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (300°, 100%, 55%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (33, 74, 308°) |
| Source | X11 |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
Dark magenta (web color)
Displayed at right is the web color dark magenta.
Magenta on the color wheel
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If the visible spectrum is wrapped to form a color wheel, magenta (additive secondary) appears midway between red and blue:
Magenta in human culture
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Advertising
- Shades of the color magenta are often used in advertising because of their bright, eye-catching nature.
Art
- Since the mid 1960s, water based fluorescent magenta paint has been available to paint psychedelic black light paintings. (Fluorescent magenta is one of the seven main colors used, in addition to fluorescent orange, fluorescent red, fluorescent cerise, fluorescent chartreuse yellow, fluorescent blue, and fluorescent green.)
- By the early 1960s, vivid colors in the magenta range became available, and as a result many become aware that magenta, yellow, and cyan make better primary pigments than red, blue, and yellow.
Astronomy
- Astronomers have reported that spectral class T brown dwarves (the ones with the coolest temperatures) are colored magenta because of absorption by sodium and potassium atoms of light in the green portion of the spectrum. To see an artist's impression of a magenta brown dwarf, go to (halfway down the page): [4]
![[4]](http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.darkstar1.co.uk/dwarfs.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.darkstar1.co.uk/ds3.htm&h=271&w=440&sz=21&hl=en&start=36&tbnid=YZjTVVc9ngB48M:&tbnh=78&tbnw=127&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2522Brown%2BDwarfs%2522%26start%3D20%26ndsp%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DN){kind=link}
Cosmetology
- About 1977 bright colored hair dyes became available for the first time to hair stylists, and some people began having their hair dyed magenta.
Fashion
Film
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show has a character called Magenta played by Patricia Quinn.
- In the film Sky High one of the young heroes is called Magenta.
Food
- Rhubarb is magenta after sugar is added and it is boiled into rhubarb sauce or baked in pies to achieve a flavor similar to sweet and sour sauce.
- The seeds of Pomegranates, a fruit known for its anti-oxidant properties, are magenta.
Music
- There is a rock group named after the color magenta. See [5]--the website of the rock band Magenta.
- The first LP by Mink DeVille (leader: Willy DeVille) was called Return to Magenta (1978).
- In the lyrics of Savage Garden's first single "I Want You" a reference is made to one of the character's "magenta feelings" (1996).
- There is a song called Maria Magenta on the 1973 album Cosmic Wheels by Donovan. [14]
Parapsychology
- To psychics who claim to be able to observe the aura with their third eye, someone who has a magenta aura is usually described as being artistic and creative. It is reported that typical occupations for someone with a magenta aura would be such professions as artist, art dealer, actor, author, costume designer, or set designer. [15]
Politics
- The color Magenta is used to symbolize anti-racism by an anti-racist group headquarted in Amsterdam, Netherlands. See [6]--the website of the anti-racist organization Magenta.
References
- ^ (2007.) "Colour: The laws of colour mixture." Encyclopedia Britannica, via Encyclopedia Brittanica Online. Retrieved on 2007-09-20.
- ^ Battle of Magenta on the Magenta city's official website
- ^ a b (2004.) "Fuchsin." The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, via dictionary.com. Retrieved on 2007-09-20
- ^ a b c d "Fuschin." Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, Inc., via dictionary.com. Retrieved on 2007-09-20
- ^ (2004.) "Fuchsin." Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1), Random House, Inc., via dictionary.com. Retrieved on 2007-09-20
- ^ (2004.) "Magenta." The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, via dictionary.com. Retrieved on 2007-09-20
- ^ "Roseine." Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, MICRA Inc., via dictionary.com. Retrieved on 2007-09-20
- ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill Page 126 Plate 52 Color Sample K12--Magenta (Color shown is color shown above as rich magenta)
- ^ ""Crayola crayon chronology: Hot magenta". Crayola LLC. Retrieved 2007-09-21.
- ^ (Filed 2007-02-22.) "Latest status info: Serial number 77113883, mark Hot Magenta." Trademark Applications and Registrations Retrieval (TARR) website, United States Patents and Trademark Office. Retrieved on 2007-09-21.
- ^ a b (2004-10-11.) "Trademark news: On the art of protecting a color as a trademark."Markenbusiness, via markenbusiness.com. Retrieved on 2007-09-20.
- ^ (2003-11-09.) "Business: Court confirms Deutsche Telekom's right to pink." Deutsche Welle, via dw-world.de. Retrieved on 2007-09-21.
- ^ 2006-10-11. "T-Mobile unveils a new full-featured smartphone, the T-Mobile Dash." (Press release.) T-Mobile website. (Relevant section is "About T-Mobile USA, Inc.") Retrieved on 2007-09-21.
- ^ Lyrics to the song Maria Magenta:
- ^ Oslie, Pamalie Life Colors: What the Colors in Your Aura Reveal Novato, California:2000--New World Library Magenta Auras: Pages 44-51