Fuchsia (color)

Flower of Fuchsia plant

Fuchsia (/ˈfjuːʃə/, FEW-shə) is a vivid purplish red color,[1] named after the color of the flower of the fuchsia plant, which took its name from the 16th century German botanist Leonhart Fuchs.

The color fuchsia was first introduced as the color of a new aniline dye called fuchsine, patented in 1859 by the French chemist François-Emmanuel Verguin. The dye was renamed magenta later in the same year, to celebrate a victory of the French army at the Battle of Magenta on June 4, 1859, near the Italian city of that name.[2]

In the RGB color model, used to create colors on computers and television screens, and in web colors, fuchsia and magenta are exactly the same color, made by mixing blue and red light at full and equal intensity.

In color printing and design, there are more variations between magenta and fuchsia. Fuchsia is usually a more purplish color, whereas magenta is more reddish.[3] Fuchsia flowers themselves contain a wide variety of purples.

The first recorded use of fuchsia as a color name in English was in 1892.[4]

Fuchsine

The first synthetic dye of the color fuchsia, called fuchsine, was patented in 1859 by François-Emmanuel Verguin. It was later renamed magenta, and became highly popular under that name.

Fuchsia (web color)

On computer screens, red and blue light combined at full intensity produce fuchsia or magenta. The two web colors are identical, and have the same hex code, FF00FF.
Fuchsia (web color)
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet #FF00FF
sRGBB  (r, g, b) (255, 0, 255)
HSV       (h, s, v) (300°, 100%, 100%)
Source HTML/CSS[5]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

In the system of additive colors, the RGB 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. The name fuchsia is used on the HTML web color list for this color, while the name magenta is used on the X11 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.

Variations of fuchsia

French fuchsia

French Fuchsia
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet #FD3F92
sRGBB  (r, g, b) (253, 63, 146)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k) (0, 75, 42, 1)
HSV       (h, s, v) (334°, 75%, 99[6]%)
Source Pourpre.com
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

At right is displayed the color French fuchsia, which is the tone of fuchsia called fuchsia in a color list popular in France.

Fashion fuchsia

Fashion Fuchsia
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet #F400A1
sRGBB  (r, g, b) (244, 0, 161)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k) (0, 100, 34, 4)
HSV       (h, s, v) (320°, 100%, 96[7]%)
Source Maerz and Paul[8]/Venus Paradise C.P.[9][10]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Fashion fuchsia is a color used in fashion when a slightly less saturated color than shocking pink is desired. It also goes by the name Hollywood cerise.

Fuchsia rose

Fuchsia Rose
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet #C74375
sRGBB  (r, g, b) (199, 67, 117)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k) (0, 66, 41, 22)
HSV       (h, s, v) (337°, 66%, 78%)
Source Pantone TPX
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Fuchsia rose is the color that was chosen as the 2001 Pantone color of the year by Pantone.

The source of this color is the "Pantone Textile Paper eXtended (TPX)" color list, color #17-2031 TPX—Fuchsia Rose.[11]

Red-purple

Red-Purple
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet #E40078
sRGBB  (r, g, b) (228, 0, 120)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k) (0, 100, 5, 0)
HSV       (h, s, v) (328°, 100%, 89%)
Source Gallego and Sanz[12]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Red-purple is the color that is called Rojo-Púrpura (the Spanish word for "red-purple") in the Guía de coloraciones (Guide to colorations) by Rosa Gallego and Juan Carlos Sanz, a color dictionary published in 2005 that is widely popular in the Hispanophone realm.

Although red-purple is a seldom-used color name in English, in Spanish it is regarded one of the major tones of purple.

Fuchsia purple

Fuchsia Purple
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet #CC397B
sRGBB  (r, g, b) (204, 57, 123)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k) (0, 72, 40, 20)
HSV       (h, s, v) (333°, 72%, 80[13]%)
Source Pantone TPX[14]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

The color fuchsia 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.[15]

Deep fuchsia

Fuchsia (Crayola)
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet #C154C1
sRGBB  (r, g, b) (193, 84, 193)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k) (24, 87, 24, 0)
HSV       (h, s, v) (300°, 67%, 72%)
Source Crayola
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Deep fuchsia is the color that is called fuchsia in the List of Crayola crayon colors.

Fandango

Fandango
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet #B53389
sRGBB  (r, g, b) (181, 51, 137)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k) (0, 72, 24, 29)
HSV       (h, s, v) (320°, 72%, 71%)
Source Maerz and Paul
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Displayed at right is the color fandango.

The first recorded use of fandango as a color name in English was in 1925.[16]

Antique fuchsia

Antique Fuchsia
 
    Color coordinates
Hex triplet #915C83
sRGBB  (r, g, b) (145, 92, 131)
CMYKH   (c, m, y, k) (0, 37, 10, 23)
HSV       (h, s, v) (316°, 37%, 57%)
Source Plochere
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)
H: Normalized to [0–100] (hundred)

Displayed at right is the color antique fuchsia.

The first recorded use of antique fuchsia as a color name in English was in 1928.[17]

The source of this color is the Plochere Color System, a color system formulated in 1948 that is widely used by interior designers.[18]

Crayola color fuchsia

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 the Dictionary of Color and the color names of the Munsell 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 the color 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 wheel chroma hue than the original color chip shown on the Munsell color wheel diagram in the Munsell color system article). In 1972, a new Crayola crayon color was introduced called hot magenta which is the closest equivalent to the web color fuchsia in Crayola crayons. (See List of Crayola crayon colors.)

The color shown in the color box above is the color called "Fuchsia" in A Dictionary of Color. That is why the name fuchsia was chosen as the equivalent to one of the three secondary additive primary colors, electric magenta, because A Dictionary of Color was the primary reference on color names (besides the Munsell 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 in A Dictionary of Color is a somewhat different color than the color shown in that book as fuchsia—it is the original color magenta now called rich magenta or magenta (dye) (see the article on magenta for a color box displaying a sample of this original magenta).

See also

References

  • Philip Ball (2001), Bright Earth, Art and the Invention of Colour, Penguin Group, ISBN 978-2-7541-0503-3. (ISBN and page numbers are from the French translation).

Notes and citations

  1. ↑ Oxford English dictionaries online: "a vivid pinkish-red colour like that of the sepals of a typical fuchsia flower". See also Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (2002), Oxford University Press, 5th Edition: "A shade of red like that of the fuchsia flower." See also Random House College Dictionary (1980), Revised Edition: "A Bright purplish-red color". See also Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language: "a purplish-red."
  2. ↑ Philip Ball, Bright Earth, Art and the Invention of Colour, p. 214.
  3. ↑ Compare the colors Fuchsia and Magenta in the 1930 book A Dictionary of Color by Maerz and Paul
  4. ↑ Maerz and Paul, A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill, p. 195; Color Sample of Fuchsia Page 123 Plate 50 Color Sample I 12
  5. ↑ "CSS Color Module Level 3". W3.org. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
  6. ↑ "web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code of color #FD3F92 (French Fuchsia):". Web.forret.com. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
  7. ↑ "web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code of color #F400A1 (Hollywood Cerise (Fashion Fuchsia)):". Web.forret.com. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
  8. ↑ The color displayed in the color box above matches the color called Hollywood in the 1930 book by Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill; the color Hollywood is displayed on page 33, Plate 5, Color Sample K5.
  9. ↑ This color matches the color called Hollywood Cerise in the Venus Paradise colored pencil set, widely sold during the 1950s.
  10. ↑ This was the color called fuchsia on the web color list popular in France called pourpre.com until 2010, when the formula was changed to hex code #FD3592, shown above as French Fuchsia.
  11. ↑ PANTONE. "PANTONE 17-2031 TPX Fuchsia Rose - find a PANTONE Color". PANTONE. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
  12. ↑ Gallego, Rosa; Sanz, Juan Carlos (2005). Guía de coloraciones (Gallego, Rosa; Sanz, Juan Carlos (2005). Guide to Colorations) Madrid: H. Blume. ISBN 84-89840-31-8
  13. ↑ "web.forret.com Color Conversion Tool set to hex code of color #CC397B (Fuchsia Purple):". Web.forret.com. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
  14. ↑ Type the words "Fuchsia Purple" into the indicated window on the Pantone Color Finder and the color will appear.
  15. ↑ "Search - Find a PANTONE Color". Pantone.com. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
  16. ↑ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill, p. 195; Color Sample of Fandango Page 127 Plate 52 Color Sample L 10
  17. ↑ Maerz and Paul, A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill, p. 189; Color Sample of Antique Fuchsia Page 109 Plate 43 Color Sample K7
  18. ↑ Plochere Color System: Archived August 21, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.
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