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| Fuchsia | |
|---|---|
 Flowers of the fuchsia plant | |
 Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #FF00FF |
| sRGBB (r,g,b) | (255, 0, 255) |
| HSV (h,s,v) | (300°, 100%, 100%) |
| CIELChuv (L,C,h) | (60, 137, 308°) |
| Source | W3C CSS Color Module[1] |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
Fuchsia (/ˈfjuːʃə/ ⓘ,FEW-shə) is a vividpinkish–red color,[2] named after the color of the flower of thefuchsia plant, which was named by a French botanist,Charles Plumier, after the 16th-century German botanistLeonhart Fuchs.
The color fuchsia was introduced as the color of a newaniline dye calledfuchsine, patented in 1859 by the French chemist François-Emmanuel Verguin. The fuchsine dye was renamedmagenta later in the same year, to celebrate a victory of the French army at theBattle of Magenta on 4 June 1859 near the Italian city of that name.[3]
The first recorded use offuchsia as a color name in English was in 1892.[4]
In color printing and design, there are more variations betweenmagenta and fuchsia. Fuchsia is usually a more pinkish–purplish color, whereas magenta is more reddish.[5] Fuchsia flowers themselves contain a wide variety of purples. Fuchsia was a very popular aesthetic for fashion during the 2000s.[6][7][8][9][10][11]
The first synthetic dye of the color fuchsia, called fuchsine, was patented in 1859 by François-Emmanuel Verguin. It was later renamedmagenta, and became highly popular under that name.
| Fuchsia (web color) | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #FF00FF |
| sRGBB (r,g,b) | (255, 0, 255) |
| HSV (h,s,v) | (300°, 100%, 100%) |
| CIELChuv (L,C,h) | (60, 137, 308°) |
| Source | HTML/CSS[12] |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Vivid purple |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred) | |
In the system ofadditive colors, theRGB color model used to create all the colors on a computer or television display, the colors magenta and fuchsia are exactly the same, and have the same hex number, #FF00FF.[12] The name fuchsia is used on theHTML web color list for this color, while the namemagenta is used on theX11 web color list. They are both composed the same way, by combining an equal amount of blue and red light at full brightness, as shown in the image on the left.
| French Fuchsia | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #FD3F92 |
| sRGBB (r,g,b) | (253, 63, 146) |
| HSV (h,s,v) | (334°, 75%, 99%) |
| CIELChuv (L,C,h) | (59, 121, 352°) |
| Source | Pourpre.com[13] |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Vivid purplish red |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
At right is displayed the colorFrench fuchsia, which is the tone of fuchsia calledfuchsia in a color list popular in France.
| Fuchsia Rose | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #C74375 |
| sRGBB (r,g,b) | (199, 67, 117) |
| HSV (h,s,v) | (337°, 66%, 78%) |
| CIELChuv (L,C,h) | (49, 86, 354°) |
| Source | Pantone TPX[14] |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Strong purplish red |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
Fuchsia rose is the color that was chosen as the 2001Pantone color of the year byPantone.
| Red-Purple | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #E40078 |
| sRGBB (r,g,b) | (228, 0, 120) |
| HSV (h,s,v) | (328°, 100%, 89%) |
| CIELChuv (L,C,h) | (49, 125, 353°) |
| Source | Gallego and Sanz[15] |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Vivid purplish red |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
Red–purple is the color that is calledRojo-Púrpura (the Spanish word for "red–purple") in theGuía de coloraciones (Guide to colorations) by Rosa Gallego and Juan Carlos Sanz, a color dictionary published in 2005 that is widely popular in theHispanophone realm.
Althoughred-purple is a seldom-used color name in English, in Spanish it is regarded one of the major tones of purple.
| Fuchsia Purple | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #CC397B |
| sRGBB (r,g,b) | (204, 57, 123) |
| HSV (h,s,v) | (333°, 72%, 80%) |
| CIELChuv (L,C,h) | (49, 93, 350°) |
| Source | [Unsourced] |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Vivid purplish red |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
The colorfuchsia 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.
| Fuchsia (Crayola) | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #C154C1 |
| sRGBB (r,g,b) | (193, 84, 193) |
| HSV (h,s,v) | (300°, 56%, 76%) |
| CIELChuv (L,C,h) | (54, 82, 308°) |
| Source | Crayola |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Vivid purple |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
Deep fuchsia is the color that is calledfuchsia in theList of Crayola crayon colors.
| Fandango | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #B53389 |
| sRGBB (r,g,b) | (181, 51, 137) |
| HSV (h,s,v) | (320°, 72%, 71%) |
| CIELChuv (L,C,h) | (44, 78, 333°) |
| Source | Maerz and Paul |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Vivid purplish red |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
Displayed at right is the colorfandango.
The first recorded use offandango as a color name in English was in 1925.[16]
| Antique Fuchsia | |
|---|---|
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #915C83 |
| sRGBB (r,g,b) | (145, 92, 131) |
| HSV (h,s,v) | (316°, 37%, 57%) |
| CIELChuv (L,C,h) | (46, 36, 322°) |
| Source | Plochere[17] |
| ISCC–NBS descriptor | Moderate reddish purple |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
Displayed at right is the colorantique fuchsia.
The first recorded use ofantique fuchsia as a color name in English was in 1928.[18]
The source of this color is theplochere color system, a color system formulated in 1948 that is widely used by interior designers.[19]
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 theDictionary of Color and the color names of theMunsell color system. Crayola crayons set up a color naming system similar to that used in the Munsell color wheel, except that violet instead of purple was used as the secondary color on thecolor 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 wheelchroma hue than the original color chip shown on the Munsell color wheel diagram in the Munsell color system article[citation needed]). In 1972, a new Crayola crayon color was introduced calledhot magenta which is the closest equivalent to the web color fuchsia in Crayola crayons. (SeeList of Crayola crayon colors.)
The color shown in the color box above is the color "fuchsia" inA Dictionary of Color. That is why the name fuchsia was chosen as the equivalent to one of the three secondary additive primary colors, electricmagenta, becauseA Dictionary of Color was the primary reference on color names (besides theMunsell Book of Color) before the introduction of personal computers. The color shown above is somewhat brighter than most actual flowers of the fuchsia plant. The color shown as magenta inA Dictionary of Color is a somewhat different color from the color shown in that book as fuchsia—it is the original color magenta now calledrich magenta ormagenta (dye) (see the article on magenta for a color box displaying a sample of this original magenta).
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