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