Talk:Fuchsia (color)

Old stuff

So which is it, #FF00FF or #F400A1? The #F400A1 seems to have come from some guy's guesstimate in Talk:Magenta; is that really anything to go on? --Darksasami 08:06, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Just about everyone knows FF00FF is magenta, as indicated by the M in CMYK. Is CMYK ever called CFYK?? Do a Google search on CFYK and what will Google favor?? Georgia guy 18:59, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

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Weird, the color on the template at the bottom and the color in the image are not the same o.O Flammifer 18:48, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Exactly my case. Very confusing. --Oop 13:33, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

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Okay... so... my idea here is that fuchsia is FF00FF. Outside of printing and science, magenta is a dark pink, whereas fuchsia is always the pure light purple color. F400A1 seems to me to be more like what magenta actually is in real life (then again, magenta is a MUCH broader term than fuchsia).

Whether or not "fuchsia" is the term used in printing is 100% irrelevant. That's ike saying that light blue isn't 00FFFF, becuase it's not LBMYK. Just because there's another word for it doesn't mean that it's not a proper color.

That may not have made altogether too much sense. Apologies. Matt Yeager 23:40, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Moreover, this article is categorized under Shades of red and magenta under shades of violet. If the colors are equal, doesn't it make sense for them to go under the same category?? 66.32.248.238 23:57, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Returning to a right color

As this page was originally set up with Fuchsia as #F400A1 instead of the #FF00FF. Let me explain the reasoning. Fuchsia is a flower/fashion color. Magenta is a toner/processing color. Some computer guy messed up when they called FF00FF "Fuchsia". Just because there is a web color called "Fuchsia" that is not what this article is about. It is about approximating the actual color from fashion and from the flower.

If anyone has anything to talk on this, we can possibly add an explaination. Right now the Magenta color page and the Fuchsia color page are showing the exact same colors, when clearly they are NOT the same visible color. Feel free to comment on this. --WillDarlock 21:08, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

See Talk:Magenta. Matt Yeager 02:04, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Great work on the compromises for setting up these multiple color boxes. I think it is helpful to explain these differences. --WillDarlock 15:42, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Fuschia = Magenta

The colors shown in this article are exactly the same colors shown in the article on magenta, so shouldn't this article be combined with the article on magenta and then if you type fuchsia in the search box it would just take you to magenta. Keraunos 11:14, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Hmm... never thought about that... interesting idea... hmmm... *thinks*... Matt Yeager

I've changed my mind. I realized I made an error. I think its better to keep the two articles separate because the second color in the fuchsia article is actually different than the second color in the magenta article. ````

♫ (Talk?) 01:30, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Encyclopedia worthy? I think not.

The Human culture section does not belong here, and it assumes a species-wide culture. The bit about signifying being "into spanking" hardly seems like it belongs in an encyclopedia. I'm renaming the subdivision and removing the sexual symbolism nonsense. --Demonesque 04:24, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Crayola

I'm not qualified to get involved in the fuchsia-magenta war, but it's very confusing to read three full paragraphs in the Fuchsia article on the history of a crayon color that (according to the article) is not called fuchsia, has never been called fuchsia, and is not, in fact, fuchsia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Eostrom (talk • contribs) 04:09, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

I too am wondering why this article kind of reads like a brief history of the crayola company. 111.69.246.106 (talk) 07:37, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

Spelling

Is fuschia an alternate spelling? Google doesn't think it's wrong. 70.242.160.174 (talk) 22:46, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

I've not been able to find that spelling in any dictionaries I've checked. The only online dictionary I found that included it is WordNet, which doesn't claim to be a strict dictionary. A quick Google search does reveal, however, that the spelling "fuschia" is very frequently used in error (which is most likely the simple reason why Google doesn't think it's wrong).

DingoJunior (talk) 09:26, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Is the very frequent mispelling of this word frequent enough to deserve mention on the main page? It's almost certainly the most misspelled color in English. And the Fuchsia (the Plant) page does have a section on it. Durron597 (talk) 13:47, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

Pronunciation

Should this article have a guide to pronunciation, or could it link to the relevant part of main fuschia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuchsia#Pronunciation ? Oliverbeatson (talk) 15:42, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

How did the pronunciation get mangled into "fooshia"? The color and flower were supposedly derived from the surname of Leonhart Fuchs, and that name is pronounced "fooks" (meaning "fox" in German). Germans pronounce fuchsia as "fookseeah". Logical, no? — Quicksilver^{T @} 20:32, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

Deep fuchsia deeper/darker because it has more green? No!

The "Deep fuchsia" section includes the following comment:

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.

Adding green to a color doesn't make it deeper or darker. In fact, it will make it lighter and, in this case, less saturated. The color is darker because it has less red and blue.

DingoJunior (talk) 09:11, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Randall Munroe

Randall Munroe, creator of the webcomic xkcd, conducted a color survey recently and posted the results at http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/ and http://xkcd.com/color/rgb/. I suggest that this article uses the color #ed0dd9, which the survey found to be the RGB color that was identified as fuchsia with the highest frequency. --Humanist Geek (talk) 21:22, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

That is indeed an impressive survey, with credible good looking results. But this is probably not the place to bring it up. Maybe WP:WikiProject Color. Dicklyon (talk) 00:12, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

Clean up the section on culture

I respectfully don't see the value of having every mention of fuchsia included in the cultural section. The item on the sexual symbolism of a fuchsia hanky points to a commercial site selling fuchsia hankies, and the fact that a computer game has named something fuchsia tells us nothing at all about the color. I think this section should point to items that tell us something about the cultural symbolism of the color, and why it was chosen, rather than listing every use of the word. Otherwise this section is going to become more and more cluttered with trivia and less and less useful. SiefkinDR (talk) 17:54, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 30 December 2014

118.165.104.168 (talk) 02:11, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. Cannolis (talk) 02:16, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

Assessment comment

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The color is FUSCHIA, not fuchsia!

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Possible removal from list

colors removed

Entries in List of colors: A–F contained links to this page. The entries are : Fuchsia pink Light fuchsia pink An entry in List of colors: N–Z contained a link to this page. The entry is : Royal fuchsia I don't see any evidence that these colors are discussed in this article and plan to delete them from the list per this discussion: Talk:List_of_colors#New_approach_to_review_of_entries If someone decides that these colors should have a section in this article and it is added, I would appreciate a ping.--S Philbrick(Talk) 19:20, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

Deep fuchsia

A section mentions "Deep fuchsia" as a color. However, it provides no evidence of the existence of this name as a distinct color—it simply suggests that it is an alternative term for the color called "fuchsia". The INFOBOX color template (which is headlined "Fuchsia (Crayola)", not "Deep fuchsia") has a link to List_of_Crayola_crayon_colors which does mention "fuchsia", but not "Deep fuchsia". We either need evidence that this is a distinct color with its own color attributes or evidence that this term is used as a synonym for fuchsia. If that cannot be provided, I plan to remove this entry from this article, and from List_of_colors:_A–F.S Philbrick(Talk) 13:42, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

Fashion fuchsia

A Fuchsia_(color)#Fashion_fuchsia mentions "Fashion fuchsia" as a color. However, it provides no evidence of the existence of this name as a distinct color — it simply suggests that it is an alternative term for the color called "Hollywood cerise". The INFOBOX color template has three footnotes. One is a reference to Maerz and Paul (not online) but it suggests that the reference discusses a color called Hollywood not fashion fuchsia. the other two footnotes contain explanatory information, but neither of them provide any evidence that there is a color with this name. We either need evidence that this is a distinct color with its own color attributes or evidence that this term is used as a synonym for an existing color. If that cannot be provided, I plan to remove this entry from this article, and from List_of_colors:_A–F.--S Philbrick(Talk) 14:57, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

Hey, User:Sphilbrick, I say go for it. If those colours are different from fuchsia, then I don't think they belong in this article.

By the way: you can sign your name on a comment by appending four of '~' (four tildes, or twiddles) to your comment; it will be replaced by a nice linkified signature with a timestamp. MrDemeanour (talk) 17:49, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

MrDemeanour, ?? I did, so I don't understand your comment S Philbrick(Talk) 19:37, 3 November 2018 (UTC)

Sorry, you seem to have styled your sig so that it looks unlinkified! MrDemeanour (talk) 04:49, 4 November 2018 (UTC)

Fuchsia on Tertiary color

Magenta vs fuchsia

In tertiary color, Fuchsia is mentioned to be a slightly more red color than magenta and it is in the quinary colors list. Its hexcode seems to be similar to magenta's having full red, no green and almost full blue (#ff00e0). Is tertiary color wrong?108.46.173.109 (talk) 01:03, 28 March 2021 (UTC)

My eye is not able to see any difference. --Valerio Bozzolan (talk) 10:08, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

Merge section "In RGB" and section "Web color"

The section Fuchsia (color)#In RGB says the same information of the section Fuchsia (color)#Fuchsia (web color). Maybe they could be merged into a section "In color theory and on a computer screen" like I've seen in Red. --Valerio Bozzolan (talk) 10:06, 23 February 2022 (UTC)