"create colors on computers and television screens, and in web colors, fuchsia and magenta are exactly the same color, made by mixing blue and red light at full and equal intensity. In color printing and design, there are more variations between magenta and fuchsia. Fuchsia is usually a more purplish color, whereas magenta is more reddish. Fuchsia flowers themselves contain a wide variety of purples. The first recorded use of ""fuchsia"" as a color name in English was in 1892. The first synthetic dye of the color fuchsia, called fuchsine, was patented in 1859 by François-Emmanuel Verguin. It was later"
"""antique fuchsia"" as a color name in English was in 1928. The source of this color is the ""Plochere Color System"", a color system formulated in 1948 that is widely used by interior designers. In 1949, the color names of Crayola crayons were reformed and became more scientific, more of the names of the colors of the crayons being based on the names of colors in the original 1930 edition of the ""Dictionary of Color"" and the color names of the Munsell color system. Crayola crayons set up a color naming system similar to that used in the Munsell Color"
"The web colors fuchsia and magenta are completely identical, and are made by mixing exactly the same proportions of blue and red light. In design and printing, there is a little more variation. The French version of fuchsia in the RGB color model and in printing contains a higher proportion of red than the American version of fuchsia. Fuchsia flowers themselves, which inspired both colors, have a variety of colors, from fuchsia to purple to red. The color magenta was the result of the industrial chemistry revolution of the mid-nineteenth century, which began with the invention by William Perkin of"
"Fuchsine Fuchsine (sometimes spelled fuchsin) or rosaniline hydrochloride is a magenta dye with chemical formula CHN·HCl. There are other similar chemical formulations of products sold as fuchsine, and several dozen other synonyms of this molecule. It becomes magenta when dissolved in water; as a solid, it forms dark green crystals. As well as dying textiles, fuchsine is used to stain bacteria and sometimes as a disinfectant. In the literature of biological stains the name of this dye is frequently misspelled, with omission of the terminal -e, which indicates an amine. American and English dictionaries (Webster's, Oxford, Chambers, etc.) give the"
"that the color fuchsia is also named for Fuchs. This isn't directly correct. The name of the color fuchsia actually derives from fuchsine, an early trade name for the dye, rosaniline hydrochloride, which produces a brilliant pink-purple color. Magenta is another competing trade name for the same dye in England. The dye was given the name of fuchsine in France by its original manufacturer Renard frères et Franc to capitalize both on the increasing popularity of the genus Fuchsia in fashionable gardens and the fact that Renard, or fox in French, translates to Fuchs, or fox, in German. An 1861"
"left. At right is displayed the color French fuchsia, which is the tone of fuchsia called ""fuchsia"" in a color list popular in France. Fuchsia rose is the color that was chosen as the 2001 Pantone color of the year by Pantone. The source of this color is the ""Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)"" color list, color #17-2031 TPX—Fuchsia Rose. Red-purple is the color that is called ""Rojo-Púrpura"" (the Spanish word for ""red-purple"") in the ""Guía de coloraciones"" (""Guide to colorations"") by Rosa Gallego and Juan Carlos Sanz, a color dictionary published in 2005 that is widely popular in the"
"Fuchsite Fuchsite, also known as chrome mica, is a chromium (Cr) rich variety of the mineral muscovite, belonging to the mica group of phyllosilicate minerals, with the following formula: K(Al,Cr)(AlSiO)(OH). Trivalent chromium replaces one of the aluminium (Al) atoms in the general muscovite formula producing the apple green hue distinctive of fuchsite. It is often found in minute micaceous aggregates (with individual plates barely visible), as a major component of chromium rich phyllitic or schistose metamorphic rocks of the greenschist facies. Verdite is an impure often multicolored variety of fuchsite used for ornamental carvings. Fuchsite is named after the German"
"Hispanophone realm. Although ""red-purple"" is a seldom-used color name in English, in Spanish it is regarded one of the major tones of purple. The color fuchsia purple is displayed at right. The source of this color is the ""Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)"" color list, color #18-2436 TPX—Fuchsia Purple. Deep fuchsia is the color that is called ""fuchsia"" in the List of Crayola crayon colors. Displayed at right is the color fandango. The first recorded use of ""fandango"" as a color name in English was in 1925. Displayed at right is the color antique fuchsia. The first recorded use of"
"chloride ion. The positive ""basic fuchsinium ions"" and negative chloride ions stack to form the salt ""crystals"" depicted above. Fuchsine Fuchsine (sometimes spelled fuchsin) or rosaniline hydrochloride is a magenta dye with chemical formula CHN·HCl. There are other similar chemical formulations of products sold as fuchsine, and several dozen other synonyms of this molecule. It becomes magenta when dissolved in water; as a solid, it forms dark green crystals. As well as dying textiles, fuchsine is used to stain bacteria and sometimes as a disinfectant. In the literature of biological stains the name of this dye is frequently misspelled, with"
"chemist and mineralogist Johann Nepomuk von Fuchs. Fuchsite crystallizes in the monoclinic crystal system. Common colour of the mineral is pale green to emerald green depending on the amount of Cr substitution. The micaceous crystals are flexible and slightly sectile with a hardness of 2-2.5 on the Mohs scale. Fuchsite fluoresces lime green under long wave UV light. Fuchsite's radioactivity due to its potassium (K) content is barely detectable. Fuchsite Fuchsite, also known as chrome mica, is a chromium (Cr) rich variety of the mineral muscovite, belonging to the mica group of phyllosilicate minerals, with the following formula: K(Al,Cr)(AlSiO)(OH). Trivalent"
"correct spelling, which is also used in the literature of industrial dyeing. It is well established that production of fuchsine results in development of bladder cancers by production workers. Production of magenta is listed as a circumstance known to result in cancer. Fuchsine was first prepared by August Wilhelm von Hofmann from aniline and carbon tetrachloride in 1858. François-Emmanuel Verguin discovered the substance independently of Hofmann the same year and patented it. Fuchsine was named by its original manufacturer Renard frères et Franc, is usually cited with one of two etymologies: from the color of the flowers of the plant"
"Wheel, except that violet instead of purple was used as the secondary color on the color wheel between red and blue. The web color fuchsia is equivalent to the pure chroma on Munsell Color Wheel of the Munsell color system that is designated as ""5RP"" (""reddish purple"") i.e., a purple that is shaded toward red (the color we can achieve today with computers is a much more saturated pure color wheel chroma hue than the original color chip shown on the Munsell color wheel diagram in the Munsell color system article). In 1972, a new Crayola crayon color was introduced"
"Mauve Mauve (, ) is a dark purple colour named after the mallow flower (French: ""mauve""). The first use of the word ""mauve"" as a colour was in 1796–98 according to the ""Oxford English Dictionary"", but its use seems to have been rare before 1859. Another name for the colour is mallow, with the first recorded use of ""mallow"" as a color name in English in 1611. Mauve contains more grey and more blue than a pale tint of magenta. Many pale wildflowers called ""blue"" are actually mauve. Mauve is also sometimes described as pale violet. The synthetic dye mauve"
"to specify what a plant name stands for. The botanical genus ""Fuchsia"" is named in his honour, and consequently the colour fuchsia. Fuchs was born in 1501 in Wemding in the Duchy of Bavaria. After attending a school in Heilbronn, Fuchs went to the Marienschule in Erfurt, Thuringia at the age of twelve, and graduated as ""Baccalaureus artium"". In 1524 he became Magister Artium in Ingolstadt, and received a doctor of medicine degree in the same year. From 1524-1526 he practiced as a doctor in Munich, until he received a chair of medicine at Ingolstadt in 1526. From 1528-1531 he"
"Fuchsia Fuchsia () is a genus of flowering plants that consists mostly of shrubs or small trees. The first, ""Fuchsia triphylla"", was discovered on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic) about 1696–1697 by the French Minim monk and botanist, Charles Plumier, during his third expedition to the Greater Antilles. He named the new genus after the renowned German botanist Leonhart Fuchs (1501–1566). The fuchsias are most closely related to the northern hemisphere genus ""Circaea"", the two lineages having diverged around 41 million years ago. Almost 110 species of ""Fuchsia"" are recognized; the vast majority are native"
"mauveine in 1856, which was the first synthetic aniline dye. The enormous commercial success of the dye and the new color it produced, mauve, inspired other chemists in Europe to develop new colors made from aniline dyes. In France, François-Emmanuel Verguin, the director of the chemical factory of Louis Rafard near Lyon, tried many different formulae before finally in late 1858 or early 1859, mixing aniline with carbon tetrachloride, producing a reddish-purple dye which he called ""fuchsine"", after the color of the flower of the fuchsia plant. He quit the Rafard factory and took his color to a firm of"
"Fulvous Fulvous is a colour, sometimes described as dull orange, brownish-yellow or tawny, it can also be likened to a variation of buff, beige or butterscotch. As an adjective it is used in the names of many species of birds, and occasionally other animals, to describe their appearance. It is also used as in mycology to describe fungi with greater colour specificity, specifically the pigmentation of the surface cuticle, the broken flesh and the spores en masse. The first recorded use of ""fulvous"" as a colour name in English was in the year 1664. Fulvous in English is derived from"
"fuchsias), hummingbird flower or hummingbird trumpet (the flowers are very attractive to hummingbirds), and firechalice. The original genus name was in honor of Johann Baptista Josef Zauschner (1737–1799), a professor of medicine and botany in Prague. It is a subshrub growing to 60 cm tall. Native populations of these plants exhibit considerable variation in appearance and habit. The small leaves may be opposite or alternate, lance-shaped or ovate, with short to nonexistent stalks, and range in color from green to nearly white. Overall shape may be matting or mounding, the plants commonly spreading via rhizomes. The racemes of tubular or"
"Magnolia (color) Magnolia is a colour named after the flowering plant of the genus Magnolia. As magnolias have flowers of more than one colour, mainly cream or pale purple, ""magnolia"" may refer to different colours in different countries. An early use of ""magnolia"" as a colour name in English was in 1880, describing it as a """"tint of cream-color"""". In the UK, magnolia is a creamy colour defined by British Standard BS 08B15, with the sRGB value (244, 233, 216) and CMYK (Coated) value (0, 5, 25, 0). Although the interiors of houses in the UK have commonly been painted"
"right is the color magenta that is shown in the diagram located at the bottom of the following website offering tintbooks for CMYK printing: . Magenta, shown at the right, is one of the three secondary colors in the RGB color model, used to make all the colors on computer and television displays. It is made by a mixture of red and blue light at equal intensity. It is called magenta on X11 list of color names, and fuchsia on the HTML color list. The web colors magenta and fuchsia are exactly the same color. Sometimes the web color magenta"
"mauve, was the first synthetic organic chemical dye, discovered serendipitously in 1856. Its chemical name is 3-amino-2,±9-dimethyl-5-phenyl-7-(p-tolylamino)phenazinium acetate. Fuchsine was another synthetic dye made shortly after mauveine. It produced a brilliant fuchsia color. In the 1950s, a new family of purple and violet synthetic organic pigments called quinacridone came onto the market. It had originally been discovered in 1896, but were not synthetized until 1936, and not manufactured until the 1950s. The colors in the group range from deep red to bluish purple in color, and have the molecular formula CHNO. They have strong resistance to sunlight and washing, and"
"wavelengths than in blue/violet and red wavelengths (complements of magenta have wavelength 500–530 nm). In the Munsell color system, magenta is called ""red–purple"". If the spectrum is wrapped to form a color wheel, magenta (additive secondary) appears midway between red and violet. Violet and red, the two components of magenta, are at opposite ends of the visible spectrum and have very different wavelengths. The additive secondary color magenta, as noted above, is made by combining violet and red light at equal intensity; it is not present in the spectrum itself. In optics, fuchsia and magenta are essentially the same color."
"the color box at right. At right is the web color magenta. It is one of the three secondary colors in the RGB color model. On the , magenta is the color between rose and violet, and halfway between red and blue. This color is called ""magenta"" in X11 and ""fuchsia"" in HTML. In the RGB color model, it is created by combining equal intensities of red and blue light. The two web colors magenta and fuchsia are exactly the same color. Sometimes the web color magenta is called ""electric magenta"" or ""electronic magenta"". While the magenta used in printing"
"ochreous ground colour, with the bands also developed are ab. ""ochrea"" Tutt ; — those with a yellowish ground and purplish-brown bands are ""punica"" Bkh.; the lines and bands are often obscured and semiobsolete; these less-marked forms with dull reddish ground are ""unicolor"" ; — with bright red ground ""rufa"" Tutt; — and with greenish ochreous ground ""extincta"" Spul.; ""sibirica"" Stgr. from Central Asia, is a form with pale yellow forewings; ""cinnamomea"" Fuchs has much grey suffusion, the area beyond outer line darker brown; specimens from Amasia, though reddish in a few cases, mostly females, are generally much paler than"
"Munchkins, yellow for Winkies, red for Quadlings, green for the Emerald City, and (in works after the first) purple for the Gillikins, which region was also not named in the first book. (This contrasts with Kansas; Baum, describing it, used ""gray"" nine times in four paragraphs.) In ""The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"", this is merely the favorite color, used for clothing and other man-made objects, and having some influence on their choice of crops, but the basic colors of the world are natural colors. The effect is less consistent in later works. In ""The Marvelous Land of Oz"", the book"
"Magenta took its name from an aniline dye made and patented in 1859 by the French chemist François-Emmanuel Verguin, who originally called it ""fuchsine"". It was renamed to celebrate the Italian-French victory at the Battle of Magenta fought between the French and Austrians on June 4, 1859, near the Italian town of Magenta in Lombardy. A virtually identical color, called roseine, was created in 1860 by two British chemists: Chambers Nicolson and George Maule. The web color magenta is also called fuchsia. Magenta is an extra-spectral color, meaning that it is not found in the visible spectrum of light. Rather,"
"suggested that the amethyst color could be from ferric thiocyanate or sulfur found in amethyst stones. Displayed at right is the web color medium purple which is equivalent to ""deep medium violet"" or deep lavender. Displayed at right is the color purple mountain majesty, a Crayola color since 1993. This color may be regarded as a ""medium lavender gray"". This color was the color called ""lavender"" in Crayola crayons before 1958, when Crayola switched to calling the color shown above as ""lavender pink"" as being ""lavender"". See the website ""Lost Crayola Crayon Colors"". Because of that, another name for this"
"much larger color gamut than RYB color space. The first recorded use of ""cyan"" as a color name in English was in 1879. The color turquoise, a representation of the color of the semi-precious stone turquoise. The first recorded use of ""turquoise"" as a color name in English was in 1573. The color ""turquoise"" is a light tone of blue-green. Green-blue had been a Crayola color since 1958. It was continued as a Crayola crayon color until 1990. One definition of the color is in the Munsell color system (Munsell 5BG) although there is wide-spread acceptance and knowledge of the"
"in 1949; originally it was called brilliant rose but the name was changed in 1958 to ""magenta"". The original name is more accurate since this color, having a hue code of 329, is much closer to rose than magenta. At right is displayed the color Thulian pink. This color is also called Thulite pink; the first recorded use of ""Thulite pink"" as a color name in English was in 1912. The term ""Thulian pink"" refers to the land of Thule. Sample of Thulian pink: ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names (1955) – Color Sample of Thulite Pink (color sample #248) Another"
"displayed the X11 color named turquoise. ""Turquoise"" is the name of a greenish blue color, based on the gem of the same name. The word ""turquoise"" comes from the French for Turkish, as the gem was originally imported from Turkey. The first recorded use of ""turquoise"" as a color name in English was in 1573. Perhaps owing to sharing its name with a mineral, turquoise is currently a more common term in English than other cyan-like colors. Verdigris is the common name for a green pigment obtained through the application of acetic acid to copper plates or the natural patina"
"eXtended (TPX)"" color list, color #19-1518 TPX—Puce. Puce Puce is a dark red or purple brown color, a brownish purple or a ""dark reddish brown."" ""Puce"" is the French word for ""flea"". The color is said to be the color of bloodstains on linen or bedsheets, even after being laundered, from a flea's droppings, or after a flea has been crushed. The ""Oxford English Dictionary"" (""OED"") dates the first English use of ""puce"" as a color to 1778. The name comes from the French word ""puce"", or flea, which comes from the Latin words for flea, ""pulicem"" or ""pulex"". According"
"a fish-scale-like sheen. The stone is noted for its great variety of colors, ranging from white and silver to browns, yellows, and golds. Another stone in the area, Elba Quartzite, is a green micaceous quartzite. The green color of the rock is the result of chromium in the mica which is also known as fuchsite. The original sedimentary rock from which the quartzite formed was a quartz-rich sandstone. During the metamorphic process, the pressure caused the layers of clay within the sandstone to thin and flatten into the mica-rich layers. The space between planes of parting or foliation are consistent"
"purple"". Perkin was so successful in recommending his discovery to the dyestuffs industry that his biography by Simon Garfield is titled ""Mauve"". As mauveine faded easily, our contemporary understanding of mauve is as a lighter, less saturated color than it was originally known. ""Mauveine"" was named after the mauve colored mallow flower, even though it is a much deeper tone of purple than mauve. The term ""Mauve"" in the late 19th century could refer to either the deep, rich color of the dye or the light color of the flower. Mauve (meaning Mauveine) came into great vogue when in 1862"