Magenta

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	CSS Color Module Level 3
	B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte); H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Magenta (/məˈdʒɛntə/) is a purplish-red color.^[1]^[2] On color wheels of the RGB (additive) and CMY (subtractive) color models, it is located precisely midway between violet and red. It is one of the four colors of ink used in color printing by an inkjet printer, along with yellow, cyan, and black to make all the other colors. 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 Italian-French victory at the Battle of Magenta fought between the French and Austrians on 4 June 1859 near the Italian town of Magenta in Lombardy.^[3]^[4] A virtually identical color, called roseine, was created in 1860 by two British chemists, Edward Chambers Nicholson, and George Maule.

The web color magenta is also called fuchsia.

^ Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language (1964)
^ definition of magenta in Oxford dictionary (American English) (US)
^ Cite error: The named reference Ball214 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ St. Clair, Kassia (2016). The Secret Lives of Color. London: John Murray. pp. 167–168. ISBN 978-1473630819. OCLC 936144129.

[1] Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language (1964)

[2] tion of magenta in Oxford dictionary (American English) (US)

[Ball214-3] Cite error: The named reference Ball214 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[StClair-4] St. Clair, Kassia (2016). The Secret Lives of Color. London: John Murray. pp. 167–168. ISBN 978-1473630819. OCLC 936144129.

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