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Fuchsia is a color named after the flower of the fuchsia plant. Fuchsia is used as an alias (alternate name) for electric magenta.

There is also a somewhat redder and slightly less saturated hue termed fashion fuchsia that is used in women's fashion (it is also called Hollywood cerise).

The first recorded use of fuchsia as a color name in English was in 1892. ^[1]

Contents 1 Fuchsia (web color) (Electric Magenta) 2 Light Fuchsia Pink (Pale Magenta) 3 Fuchsia Pink (Light Magenta) 4 Fashion Fuchsia (Hollywood Cerise) 5 Deep Fuchsia 6 Fandango 7 Royal Fuchsia 8 Fuchsia in Human Culture 9 References 10 See also

Fuchsia (web color)
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#FF00FF
sRGBB	(r, g, b)	(255, 0, 255)
Source		HTML/CSS[2]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

This color gained currency in computer usage as an alias for #FF00FF, full magenta (often semi-erroneously called bright pink or vivid pink). Specifying fuchsia in Cascading Style Sheets will yield that color. It is part of the Windows VGA 16-color palette. It is also commonly used as a transparency key.

Before 1958, the Crayola color magenta was called brilliant rose in Crayola. (See the website "Lost Crayola Crayon Colors": [1]) After 1958, the name of the color was changed to Magenta (the Crayola color magenta is far from the web color fuchsia--go to the article on the color rose and look under brilliant rose to see the difference. ).

There are a number of colors in the fuchsia/magenta range. Some of them are indicated below and color bands displaying the various shades of magenta for comparison are appended to the magenta article.

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 primary 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 (see the article on magenta for a color box displaying a sample of this original magenta).

Light Fuchsia Pink
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#F984EF
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(249, 132, 229)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(300°, 27%, 94%)
Source		BF2S Color Guide
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the color light fuchsia pink.

This color is also called pale magenta (this is what it is listed as in the source).

Fuchsia Pink
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#FF77FF
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(255, 119, 255)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(300°, 47%, 84%)
Source		[Unsourced]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the color fuchsia pink.

This color is also called light magenta.

Hollywood Cerise
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#F400A1
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(244, 0, 161)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(320°, 100%, 96%)
Source		BF2S Color Guide
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

In womens fashion circles, the color displayed at right, fashion fuchsia is known as a popular color for clothing, shoes, and accessories, where it is a slightly less saturated hue of pink than Shocking pink.

In the 1950s, a popular brand of colored pencils, Venus Paradise, had a colored pencil called Hollywood cerise which was this color. To compare to regular cerise, go to article on cerise. Before being renamed "Hollywood cerise" in the 1940s, the color had before that, since 1922, been known simply as Hollywood. ^[3]

Deep Fuchsia
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#C154C1
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(193, 84, 193)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(300°, 67%, 72%)
Source		Crayola
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the color deep fuchsia. Parts of some fuchsia flowers are this deeper color of fuchsia.

This color has equal proportions of red and blue like the web color fuchsia, but has some green also and therefore is a deeper (darker) color. This is the color that is labeled fuchsia in the List of Crayola crayon colors.

Fandango
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#B55489
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(184, 84, 137)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(310°, 27%, 42%)
Source		[Unsourced]
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the color fandango.

The first recorded use of fandango as a color name in English was in 1925. ^[4]

Royal Fuchsia
— Color coordinates —
Hex triplet		#CA2C92
RGBB	(r, g, b)	(202, 44, 146)
HSV	(h, s, v)	(290°, 67%, 44%)
Source		Internet
B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte)

Displayed at right is the color royal fuchsia.

The source of this color is the following color chart: [2] (See color sample of Royal Fuchsia)

Broadway

• In the 2007 Tony Award winning musical Grey Gardens fuchsia is referred to in the song "Revolutionary Costume for Today":

The best kind of shoes to express bold views

Are strapless mules in assertive hues

Like fuchsia or peach, except on the beach,

In which case you wear flats.

Interior Design

• Fuchsia (normally the magenta equivalent fuchsia) was a popular color for interior decoration in combination with orange in the 1970s in the United States.^{[citation needed]}

Lexicography

• In Gay slang, a beautiful, attractive woman is known as a fuchsia queen. ^[5]

Sexuality

• In the handkerchief code of the gay leather subculture, wearing a fuchsia bandana means one has a fetish of spanking.^[6]

1. ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill--Page 195; Color Sample of Fuchsia Page 123 Plate 50 Color Sample I 12
2. ^ W3C TR CSS3 Color Module, HTML4 color keywords
3. ^ Maerz and Paul, A Dictionary of Color New York:1930--McGraw-Hill See Hollywood in Index, Page 196 and Color Sample of Hollywood, Page 33, Plate 5, Color Sample K5
4. ^ Maerz and Paul A Dictionary of Color New York:1930 McGraw-Hill--Page 195; Color Sample of Fandango Page 127 Plate 52 Color Sample L 10
5. ^ Rodgers, Bruce Gay Talk: The Queen's Vernacular--A Dictionary of Gay Slang New York:1972--Paragon Books, G.P. Putnam's Sons Page 87 -- Fuchsia queen
6. ^ Martine, Lord. (2001-11-16.) "A friendly pocket in the Castro." San Francisco Chronicle, via sfgate.com. Retrieved on 2007-09-24.

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• List of colors

Web colors	black	gray	silver	white	red	maroon	purple	fuchsia	green	lime	olive	yellow	orange	blue	navy	teal	aqua

					Shades of red
Alizarin	Amaranth	Burgundy	Cardinal	Carmine	Cerise	Chestnut	Coral Red	Crimson	Dark Pink	Falu red	Fire engine red
Girlsnberry	Hollywood Cerise	Magenta (Process)	Maroon	Mauve taupe	Orange-Red	Persian red	Pink	Persimmon	Red	Red-violet	Rose
Rust	Puce	Sangria	Scarlet	Terra cotta	Venetian red	Vermilion

					Shades of pink
Pink	Carnation pink	Fuchsia	Magenta	Salmon Pink	Deep Pink	Hollywood Cerise	Hot Pink	Medium Pink	Shocking Pink	Cherry Blossom Pink	Coral Pink
French Rose	Lavender Pink	Persian Rose	Carmine Pink	Cerise Pink	Fuchsia Pink	Japanese Pink	Persian Pink	Dark Pink	Hot Magenta	Lavender Rose	Rose
Thulian Pink	Amaranth	Light Thulian Pink	Puce	Rose Pink	Tea Rose	Amaranth Pink	Brink Pink	Cerise	Deep Carmine Pink	Mountbatten pink	Ultra Pink

					Shades of violet
Amethyst	Cerise	Eggplant	Fuchsia	Han Purple	Heliotrope	Indigo	Lavender	Lavender blush	Lavender gray	Lavender rose	Lilac
Magenta	Mauve	Mountbatten pink	Orchid	Palatinate Purple	Persian indigo	Purple	Red-violet	Rose	Thistle	Violet	Wisteria