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Clarification on Magenta

February 19th, 2009
Ars Technica clarifies the idea that magenta isn’t a real color. The bottom line is that if magenta isn’t a real color because it doesn’t live on the electromagnetic spectrum, then neither is – say – light green a real color. If you look at a standard CIE chromaticity diagram, which maps wavelengths of light [...]
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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 [...]
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