It’s not a spectral color. That is, no one wavelength of light can reproduce it. But I’ve seen magenta things, and there is widespread intersubjective agreement about what is magenta and what isn’t. It damn well is a color.
Do not confuse concepts when you use a confusing word. There is no wavelength simultaneously above 740nm and below 450nm. There is a vector for monitor pixels. Whatever it is you mean by “color”, these two facts explain magenta. Think like the star, not like the starfish.
It’s not a spectral color. That is, no one wavelength of light can reproduce it. But I’ve seen magenta things, and there is widespread intersubjective agreement about what is magenta and what isn’t. It damn well is a color.
Do not confuse concepts when you use a confusing word. There is no wavelength simultaneously above 740nm and below 450nm. There is a vector for monitor pixels. Whatever it is you mean by “color”, these two facts explain magenta. Think like the star, not like the starfish.