magentas

Magentas refers to magenta and its various hues. Magenta is a non-spectral color produced by combining red and blue light; it has no wavelength of its own. In additive color systems such as RGB, magenta arises when red and blue light are mixed at full intensity with green at zero. In subtractive systems like CMYK used in printing, magenta is one of the primary colors and is used alongside cyan, yellow, and black to reproduce a wide range of colors. The color is commonly represented in digital formats by hex codes such as #FF00FF, which is also often labeled magenta or fuchsia in web color sets.

The name magenta was adopted in the mid-19th century to commemorate the Battle of Magenta, fought near Magenta, Lombardy, Italy, in 1859, and subsequently applied to a synthetic dye discovered around the same period. The term has since been used to refer to a family of purplish-red hues that range from vivid, highly saturated tones to lighter pinkish variants.

In usage, magenta appears in graphic design, printing, fashion, and branding due to its high visibility. It is often contrasted with pink, which denotes lighter tints of magenta, and with purple, which lies between red and blue without the same chromatic balance. Some color naming conventions treat "magenta" and "fuchsia" as synonyms, while others distinguish them by tonal differences.