A light purple, purplish-red, or pinkish purple colour obtained by mixing red and blue light (thus a secondary colour), but primary in the CMYK colour system used in printing
Prismacolor magenta (orginal magenta) colour:.
One of the subtractive primary colors Magenta absorbs all green light, reflecting red and blue
One of the subtractive primaries the hue of which is used for one of the 4 color process inks It reflects blue and red light and absorbs green light Often confused with the additive primary color or red, especially when requesting color corrections
a battle in 1859 in which the French and Sardinian forces under Napoleon III defeated the Austrians under Francis Joseph I deep purplish red
One of the process ink colors for printing Pure magenta is the "greenless" color; it absorbs all wavelengths of green from light and reflects all red and blue wavelengths
Purplish color; complementary to green or the minus-green subtractive primary used in the three-color process Magenta light results when red and blue light overlap
Magenta is used to describe things that are dark reddish-purple in colour. a dark reddish purple colour (Magenta, town in Italy where the substance the color is made from was discovered)