Fuchsia (, ) 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.
In print and design
In color printing and design, there are more variations between magenta and fuchsia. Fuchsia is usually a more pinkish–purplish color, whereas magenta is more reddish. Fuchsia flowers themselves contain a wide variety of purples. Fuchsia was a very popular aesthetic for fashion during the 2000s.
Fuchsine
The first synthetic dye of the color fuchsia, called fuchsine, was patented in 1859 by François-Emmanuel Verguin. It was later renamed magenta, and became highly popular under that name.
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File:Basic Fuchsine in aqueous solution.jpg|A sample of fuchsine dye in an aqueous solution
File:Basic Fuchsine Crystals.JPG|Crystals of fuchsine dye and the color they produce
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Fuchsia (web color)
thumb|left|On computer screens, red and blue light combined at full intensity produce fuchsia or magenta. The two web colors are identical, and have the same hex code, FF00FF.