If combined, green and magenta ink will look dark gray or black. In this model, magenta is the complementary color of green, and these two colors have the highest contrast and the greatest harmony. If magenta, cyan, and yellow are printed on top of each other on a page, they make black. In the CMYK color model, used in color printing, it is one of the three primary colors, along with cyan and yellow, used to print all the rest of the colors.
Note that a purple response is elicited in the brain by stimulating H and L (through its secondary sensitivity) cones but little to no M stimulus. The web color magenta is also called fuchsia.Ĭone and rod response curves. A virtually identical color, called roseine, was created in 1860 by two British chemists, Chambers Nicolson and George Maule. It was renamed to celebrate the Italian-French victory at the Battle of Magenta fought between the French and Austrians on June 4, 1859, near the Italian town of Magenta in Lombardy. 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. The tone of magenta used in printing is called "printer's magenta".
It is one of the four colors of ink used in color printing by an inkjet printer, along with yellow, black, and cyan, to make all other colors. On color wheels of the RGB (additive) and CMY (subtractive) color models, it is located exactly midway between red and blue. Magenta ( / m ə ˈ dʒ ɛ n t ə/) is a color that is variously defined as purplish- red, reddish-purple or mauvish- crimson. For other uses, see Magenta (disambiguation).