Fuchsia (color)
| Fuchsia | |
|---|---|
Flowers of the fuchsia plant | |
| Color coordinates | |
| Hex triplet | #FF00FF |
| sRGBB (r, g, b) | (255, 0, 255) |
| HSV (h, s, v) | (300°, 100%, 100%) |
| CIELChuv (L, C, h) | (60, 137, 308°) |
| Source | W3C CSS Color Module |
| B: Normalized to [0–255] (byte) | |
Fuchsia (/ˈfjuːʃə/ ⓘ, FEW-shə) is a vivid pinkish-red color, 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.
The color fuchsia was introduced as the color of a new aniline dye called fuchsine, patented in 1859 by the French chemist François-Emmanuel Verguin. The fuchsine dye was renamed magenta later in the same year, to celebrate a victory of the French army at the Battle of Magenta on 4 June 1859 near the Italian city of that name.
The first recorded use of fuchsia as a color name in English was in 1892.