Magenta Is Not a Real Color

February 17th, 2009


This is interesting. In the electromagnetic spectrum, there is no such color as magenta. Colors reside in the visible spectrum, with ultraviolet on one side and infrared on the other. Violet has the shortest wavelength, and red has the longest. Blues and greens and yellows all live between the two, but there’s nowhere for a color that is a mix of the two. Here’s another figure, with some context:

via Boing Boing

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