Talk:Magenta

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My question is based on the idea that the "color" of light is based on its frequency (and with a constant velocity also its wavelength) and that when you add two colors of light you should get a new color that is a interference pattern of the two waves. Now this idea follows when you combine red and green light and the mixture of the low frequency red and the medium frequency green combine to produce a yellow that is inbetween the low and medium frequency. The same is true for mixing a high frequency blue and medium frequency resulting in a cyan. Why then does mixing a high frequency and a low frequency result in magenta and not a medium frequency green. Is this because magenta is not a true tone? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.16.18.252 (talk) 04:53, 10 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

We discussed definition of magenta over the years, but it's not clear the lead reflects any consensus, or sourcing. And it gets changed like this edit today, without changing the cited source. Will someone work on this with me? Dicklyon (talk) 17:25, 26 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Not pink 2.101.1.253 (talk) 23:25, 29 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Listen, I don’t know what has you say “not pink”, but when I look at the real color of magenta, it does look a lot like a Pinkish color and would be confusing if people call the red-purple color “magenta” in the RYB model. This is because when mixing purple and red together in paint, it looks a lot closer to purple than a pinkish color.

So I will feel confused if “Magenta” is used as the “purple-red” color name in both the RYB and RGB color systems being as they don’t look like the same color when mixed between red and purple, in “paint” versus “light”. Therefore, Magenta is a Pink color, regardless of what Wikipedia or everyone says about the color! 🙂 Craig Lungren (talk) 21:09, 26 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Please correct: L*=60.3; C*=115.6; h_ab= 328.2° ZJ (talk) 14:58, 8 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]