This is an accepted version of this page Fuchsia (/ˈfjuːʃə/ ⓘ, FEW-shə) is a vivid pinkish-purplish-red color,[2] named after the color of the flower of the fuchsia plant, which was named by a French botanist, Charles Plumier, after the 16th-century German botanist Leonhart Fuchs.

[6][7][8][9][10][11] The first synthetic dye of the color fuchsia, called fuchsine, was patented in 1859 by François-Emmanuel Verguin.

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.

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

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.

The color shown above is somewhat brighter than most actual flowers of the fuchsia plant.