Magenta vs. Red — What's the Difference?

Magenta () is a color that is variously defined as purplish-red, reddish-purple or mauvish-crimson. On color wheels of the RGB (additive) and CMY (subtractive) color models, it is located exactly midway between red and blue.

Red is the color at the long wavelength end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet. It has a dominant wavelength of approximately 625–740 nanometres.

A light mauvish-crimson which is one of the primary subtractive colours, complementary to green

The hue of the long-wavelength end of the visible spectrum, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 630 to 750 nanometers; any of a group of colors that may vary in lightness and saturation and whose hue resembles that of blood; one of the additive or light primaries; one of the psychological primary hues.

See fuchsin.

A pigment or dye having a red hue.

A purplish red, one of the subtractive primary colors.

Something that has a red hue.

A vibrant light purple, purplish-red, reddish-purple, or pinkish purple colour obtained by mixing red and blue light (thus a secondary colour), but primary in the CMYK colour system used in printing.

Often Red A Communist.

Having the colour of fuchsia, fuchsine, light purple.

A revolutionary activist.

An aniline dye obtained as an amorphous substance having a green bronze surface color, which dissolves to a shade of red; also, the color; - so called from Magenta, in Italy, in allusion to the battle fought there about the time the dye was discovered. Called also fuchsin, fuchsine, roseïne, etc.

The condition of being in debt or operating at a loss

The purplish-red color of magenta.

Having a color resembling that of blood.

A dark purple-red; the dye was discovered in 1859, the year of the battle of Magenta

Reddish in color or having parts that are reddish in color

A battle in 1859 in which the French and Sardinian forces under Napoleon III defeated the Austrians under Francis Joseph I

Having a reddish or coppery skin color.

Deep purplish red

Often Red Often Offensive Of or being a Native American.

Having a ruddy or flushed complexion

Relating to or being a red state.

Often Red Communist.

Having red#Noun as its color.

(of hair) Having an orange-brown or orange-blond colour; ginger.

(of the skin) With a red hue due to embarrassment or sunburn.

Of the hearts or diamonds suits. Compare of the spades or clubs suits

Supportive of, related to, or dominated by a political party or movement represented by the color red:

Left-wing parties and movements, chiefly socialist or communist, including the U.K. Labour party and the Social Democratic Party of Germany.

(US politics) The U.S. Republican Party.

Amerind; relating to Amerindians or First Nations

(astronomy) Of the lower-frequency region of the (typically visible) part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.

(particle physics) Having a color charge of red.

Any of a range of colours having the longest wavelengths, 670 nm, of the visible spectrum; a primary additive colour for transmitted light: the colour obtained by subtracting green and blue from white light using magenta and yellow filters; the colour of blood, ripe strawberries, etc.

(countable) A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; usually capitalized a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War.

One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours.

Red wine.

(countable) Any of several varieties of ale which are brewed with red or kilned malt, giving the beer a red colour.

A red kangaroo.

A redshank.

An American Indian.

(slang) The drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug.

(informal) A red light a traffic signal

(particle physics) One of the three color charges for quarks.

Usually in the phrase "bowl of red".

(informal) The redfish or red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus, a fish with reddish fins and scales.

Tomato ketchup.

(archaic) rede

To put on order; to make tidy; also, to free from entanglement or embarrassement; - generally with up; as, to red up a house.

Of the color of blood, or of a tint resembling that color; of the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the solar spectrum, which is furthest from the violet part.

The color of blood, or of that part of the spectrum farthest from violet, or a tint resembling these.

A red pigment.

The menses.

The quality or state of the chromatic color resembling the hue of blood

A tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana

Emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries

The amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue;

Having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies

Characterized by violence or bloodshed;

(especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion;

Red with or characterized by blood;