Magenta ain't a color

[ksmith]

By way of shadowhelm, via Facebook:

A beam of white light is made up of all the colours in the spectrum. The range extends from red through to violet, with orange, yellow, green and blue in between. But there is one colour that is notable by its absence.

Pink (or magenta, to use its official name) simply isn’t there. But if pink isn’t in the light spectrum, how come we can see it?


Rest of article here. I pondered how Jani Kilian perceived color as she hybridized, and wish that I had played with that a little more.