Magenta

Magenta is a red-blue color, which is also referred to as a light purple.

The name was first used as a synonym for the aniline dye fuchsin, which was first produced as a second such material 1858. The color is called Fuchsia. The name is said to come from the Italian town of Magenta near Milan, as was shed there in a battle in the Sardinian War so much blood that the ground assumed that color.

Color theory

The color magenta

• Is not a spectral color, but is on the purple line, can only be created by additive mixing of red and blue,
• Is in the model according to Helmholtz, the complementary color to green
• Is one of the primary colors of the CMY color space, which forms the basis for the four- color printing, it is realized by a color paint;
• In the RGB color space is called Magenta additive mixing of the maximum intensities for red and blue, representing the 8- bit mode, the value RGB = (255, 0, 255 ) in decimal or hexadecimal FF00FF.

The magenta defined in the RGB and CMY color spaces differ from each other and from the ideal magenta to purple line from the visible.

Trademark usage

The German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom AG has registered as a color mark for goods and services in the field of telecommunications under registration number 39552630.2 magenta color ( RAL 4010). Competing companies can therefore be warned when using this color in advertising. The corporate design is oriented since its privatization in 1995 entirely to that color, also the handset to telephone booths are magenta. The company has been trying for years to obtain protection for the hue of court, and achieved success even before the Federal Court.

The color " German Telekom Magenta " differs slightly from the normal Magenta: hex. # E20074, RGB dec: 226-0-116, Pantone Process Magenta, CMYK: 6100 0 0