First of all a color:
מאַגענטאַ , màu đỏ sậm , میجنٹا , пурпурний , สีม่วงแดงเข้ม , purpurová , kulay-pula , пурпурноцрвен , purpuriu , بنفش , maġenta , магента , fuksīns , マゼンタ , maigeanta , bíborvörös , मैजंटा , מגנטה , ματζέντα , მაგენტა , maxenta , purppura , fuksiinpunane , 마젠타 , 品紅 , пембен , пурпурны , أرجواني , i purpurtë , magenta
magenta [məˈdʒɛntə]
1. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Colours) A deep purplish red that is the complementary colour of green and, with yellow and cyan, forms a set of primary colours
2. (Chemistry / Elements & Compounds) another name for fuchsin
3. (History) Magenta – a battle in 1859 in which the French and Sardinian forces under Napoleon III defeated the Austrians under Francis Joseph I
Example:
« Just at that minute we found ourselves opposite an empty villa. Its roof was of black slate, with bright unweathered ridge-tiling; its walls were of blood-coloured brick, cornered and banded with vermiculated stucco work, and there was cobalt, magenta, and purest apple-green window-glass on either side of the front door. The whole was fenced from the road by a low, brick-pillared, flint wall, topped with a cast-iron Gothic rail, picked out in blue and gold.
Tight beds of geranium, calceolaria, and lobelia speckled the glass-plat, from whose centre rose one of the finest araucarias(its other name by the way is « monkey-puzzler »), that it has ever been my lot to see. It must have been full thirty feet high, and its foliage exquisitely answered the iron railings. Such bijou ne plus ultras, replete with all the amenities, do not, as I pointed out to Penfentenyou, transpire outside of England. »
« Actions and Reactions » by Kipling, Rudyard
A little history
« As a new understanding of the chemical nature of dyes began to emerge, the attention of the scientific community in the early decades of the nineteenth century began to be focused on isolating the coloring matters in dyes in an effort to reproduce them artificially in laboratories. The research was still largely empirical and advanced through trial-and-error. Even with the 1856 discovery of the aniline dye, mauveine — a compound that did not exist in nature — theoretical understanding came after the fact and the discovery was purely accidental (…)
1859 saw the arrival of François-Emmanuel Verguin’s fuchsine and Edward Chambers Nicholson’s roseine, known soon after as magenta. By 1860, the recipe for magenta was accidentally altered by Charles Girard and Georges de Laire to produce aniline blue. Hofmann contributed aniline violet in 1863, thus infiltrating Perkin’s market. »
« Synthetic Dyes, the Rage for Mauve and the Aniline Boom » by Anne Bissonnette
« If the eye receives light of more than one wavelength, the colour generated in the brain is formed from the sum of the input responses on the retina. For example, if red light and green light enter the eye at the same time, the resulting colour produced in the brain is yellow, the colour halfway between red and green in the spectrum.
So what does the brain do when our eyes detect wavelengths from both ends of the light spectrum at once (i.e. red and violet light)? Generally speaking, it has two options for interpreting the input data:
a) Sum the input responses to produce a colour halfway between red and violet in the spectrum (which would in this case produce green – not a very representative colour of a red and violet mix)
b) Invent a new colour halfway between red and violet
Magenta is the evidence that the brain takes option b – it has apparently constructed a colour to bridge the gap between red and violet, because such a colour does not exist in the light spectrum. Magenta has no wavelength attributed to it, unlike all the other spectrum colours. »
« Magenta Ain’t A Colour » By Liz Elliott
What can we conclude? Well, magenta is a rare and popular color. Just as rare as what you are looking for. Office Magenta’s goal is to answer your expectations regarding quality, reliability and flexibility and to become this rare color in your business life!