Color Names

Madder Magenta

Roots of the madder plant, steeped to make a rich, muted purple dye.

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Madder Magenta is a muted purple, close to mauve.

It can be described as muted, dull, matte and soft.

Set in white, because white reads best on it.

Madder Magenta

Rubia

Rubia is the type genus of the Rubiaceae family of flowering plants, which also contains Coffea (coffee). It contains around 80 species of perennial scrambling or climbing herbs and subshrubs native to the Old World.

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Magenta

Magenta is a purplish-pink color. On color wheels of the RGB and CMYK color models, it is located directly midway between blue and red. It is one of the four colors of subtractive ink used in color printing by most color printers, also known as CMYK along with yellow, cyan, and black to make all the other colors and hues. The tone of magenta used in printing, printer's magenta, is redder than the magenta of the RGB (additive) model, the former being closer to rose.

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madder

Noun

  1. A herbaceous plant, Rubia tinctorum, native to Asia, cultivated for a red-purple dye (alizarin) obtained from the root.
  2. The root of the plant, used as a medicine or a dye.

Adjective

  1. Of a deep reddish purple colour, like that of the dye.
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magenta

Noun

  1. A color which is close to the equal mixture of red and blue which is an additive secondary color but a subtractive primary color evoked by the combination of red and light blue.

Adjective

  1. Having the color of fuchsia, fuchsine, light purple.
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