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In Monday’s tutorial I mislabeled Fuchsia. On the right side of the\u00a0chart I called it Magenta. Thank you to Judy Reese in\u00a0Washington for raising her virtual hand to ask the obvious question. Where do I find Premo Magenta? Ah. There is no such thing as Premo Magenta – just lots of confusion because I used the words Fuchsia and Magenta interchangeably.<\/p>\n
This is not wrong. They are the same color. The naming history is interesting.<\/p>\n
From a children’s storybook called “Naming Colors”<\/a> by Ariane Dewey –<\/p>\n “The town of Magenta is in northern Italy. A very bloody battle was fought there in 1859 between the French, thier Italian allies, and the Austrians. Some French chemists had just invented a red dye. When they heard of France and Italy’s victory, they decided to name the dye Magenta after the battle.”<\/p>\n Before the battle the new\u00a0synthetic color was called fuchsin from the flower named after the German 16th century botanist, Otto Fuchs.<\/p>\n Somewhere I’ve read that the earlier name, Fuchsia, was adopted by the Germans who did not want a color named after a French victory.<\/p>\n So Magenta is the French name and Fuchsia the German name for the same color.<\/p>\n The Wikapedia sites for Fuchsia<\/a> and Magenta<\/a> go into lots (and lots)\u00a0more detail.<\/p>\n The main thing to remember – whether it is called Fuchsia or Magenta – it is the color that is the process primary. And its complement is\u00a0 . . . spectrum Green.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In Monday’s tutorial I mislabeled Fuchsia. On the right side of the\u00a0chart I called it Magenta. Thank you to Judy Reese in\u00a0Washington for raising her virtual hand to ask the obvious question. Where do I find Premo Magenta? Ah. There is no such thing as Premo Magenta – just lots of confusion because I used […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":7003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-theory","category-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}