Definition: One of the 4 ink colors used in 4-color (CMYK) printing and inkjet printing, magenta is a pinkish shade of red. It is one of the subtractive primaries, the other two being yellow and cyan.
Mixing the additive primaries of red and blue produces magenta. Mixing varying amounts of magenta with yellow creates shades of red while magenta with cyan creates shades of blue.
