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.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

That is just too cool!

Adrianne

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Pink is a hue . . .

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Granted, it's Wikipedia, but the section on Hue states:

Hue is one of the main properties of a color described with names such as "red", "yellow", etc...Usually, colors with the same hue are distinguished with adjectives referring to their lightness and/or chroma, such as with "light blue", "pastel blue", "vivid blue". Exceptions include brown, which is a dark orange,[1] and pink, a light red with reduced chroma.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

The way I learned it back in the Cretaceous, a hue was a spectrum color that had white light added to it. Which describes "pink" and the rest of the pastels.

That was from a visual perception course in architecture school in the *mumbles*, and may have changed in the ensuing millennium . . .