Tumblr Thread: Magenta Is The Impossible Shade Of Pink

Our brains are strange things. In this case, we get to enjoy a breakdown on how they go about perceiving what we call the color magenta. Apparently magenta is not a single color of light, but instead is how our brain perceives two different colors of light at opposing ends of the spectrum. 

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