Magenta is a purplish-red color situated directly midway between blue and red on both RGB and CMYK color wheels. It serves as one of the four primary colors of subtractive ink used in standard color printing, alongside yellow, cyan, and black.
The specific tone of magenta varies depending on the color model used. In printer's magenta, which is used for subtractive printing, the hue is redder and closer to rose than the magenta found in the additive RGB model.