What Colour Is Magenta?

Magenta is made up of red and blue light. It has equal portions of both red and blue in it. The colour magenta comes midway between violet and rose. The three main attributes of colour are hue, lightness and chroma. Hue is one of the 3 dimensions in colour spaces. The colour magenta has a hue of 300 degree. Chroma is the difference of a particular colour from grey at a particular given hue and lightness. The colour magenta is a pure chroma on the colour wheel. There are various colours in the magenta range; however, the name magenta is used for all of them. Magenta colour cannot be made with light which falls in a single wavelength.