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Pink is pale red. Technically, we could use the name pink
to designate every color between pure red and white. The above color
is exactly between red and white (#FF8080).
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Fuchsia is defined as "a brilliant deep pink color tinged with
purple". Purple is the combination of red and blue. So technically,
we could use the name fuchsia to designate every color
between a pink (red and white) and purple (red and blue). Simply
stated, fuchsia is a pink with some blue color added to it.
The above color is fuchsia as defined in the HTML
specification. It is the most purplish fuchsia that can still be
called "fuchsia" as there is here as much blue as red (#FF00FF).
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If we try to stay closer to the definition of fuchsia and just
add blue to pink, we get a more balanced fuchsia, as shown
above.
Technically, to get this fuchsia, we only change the blue
component of pink (#FF8080). The new blue component is computed to
be between the "80" and "FF" (pure blue, here in hexadecimal):
(80+FF)/2 = BF. So this fuchsia is #FF80BF.
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