Color Magenta facts

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The color magenta does not have a wavelength. It's the product of combining red and blue light, which are on the opposite ends of the visible light spectrum, so our brains fill in the gap with what they think the color should be.

The "K" (or black) in CMYK stands for "key" because in four-color printing, cyan, magenta and yellow printing plates are carefully keyed, or aligned, with the black key plate, or the plate that prints the detail of an image.

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1. The color "magenta" gets its name from the Battle of Magenta, Italy, in 1859 between the French and Austrians. The color supposedly resembles the color of the uniforms of the French Zouave light infantry, and the French chemist that invented the dye chose the name to commemorate the soldiers.

2. Pentstemon produces tubular or funnel-shaped flowers. They can be gathered in whorls along the flowering stem or arranged in simple, raceme inflorescence on top of the stem. Color of the flowers depends on the cultivar. It can be yellow, white, red, magenta, pink, purple, blue or violet. Individual flowers consist of upper and bottom lip divided in two (upper lip) and three lobes (bottom lip). Pentstemon flowers are perfect (they contain both types of reproductive organs).

3. Magenta is a non-spectral color, along with grayscales, metallics, and impossible colors

4. Word "fuchsia" can be used to describe bright, purple-pink color. This shade is also known as magenta.

5. The color fuchsia was first introduced as the color of a new dye called fuchsine, patented in 1859 by a French chemist. The dye was renamed magenta later in the same year, to celebrate a victory of the French army at the Battle of Magenta on June 4, 1859, near the Italian city of that name.

6. The color Magenta was named to celebrate the victory of the French army at the Battle of Magenta on June 4, 1859, near the Italian city of that name.

7. I learned that Deutsche Telekom, also known as T-mobile has a trademark on the color magenta

8. Due to the way the the human eye proceses light, it is impossible to see yellowish- blue light. This is the same for magenta and green. These 2 color combinations are called the "forbidden colors," and are nearly impossible to see.

9. The 'color' magenta was invented in 1860 by British chemists

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Magenta doesn't have a (single) wavelength - the color is formed by 'tricking' our brains