Magenta is a color made up of equal parts of red and blue light.

Magenta is not a spectral but an extraspectral color: it cannot be generated by light of a single wavelength.

Before printer's magenta was invented in the 1890s for CMYK printing, and electric magenta was invented in the 1980s for computer displays, these two artificially engineered colors were preceded by the color displayed at right, which is the color originally called magenta made from coal tar dyes in the year 1859.

(The secondary colors of pigment are blue, green, and red.)

As such, the CMYK printing process was invented in the 1890s, when newspapers began to publish color comic strips.

A typical formulation of process magenta is shown in the color box at right.

It is made by a mixture of red and blue light at equal intensity.

[6] At right is displayed a Crayola color formulated in 1949; it was originally called brilliant rose but the name was changed in 1958 to magenta.

By mixing various amounts of white with it, artists may create a wide range of light, bright, brilliant, vivid, rich, or deep tints of magenta.

The color sky magenta is a representation of the color of the sky near the Sun during the brief period of civil twilight, when the pink hues after sunset transition into the blue shades of early dusk.

The RAL color list first originated in 1927, and it reached its present form in 1961.

The color orchid, since it has a hue code of 302, may be classified as a rich tone of magenta.

The color plum, since it has a hue code of 307, may be regarded as a dark tone of magenta.

This color is a vivid tone of rose tending toward magenta.

This is a Crayola crayon color formulated in 1972 and called hot magenta.

There is a grayish shade of magenta that is called rose quartz.

This is a Crayola crayon color formulated in 1972 and called ultra pink.

The color steel pink was introduced by Crayola in January 2011, when the Ultra Hot and Super Cool set of Crayola colored pencils was fully introduced.