The Color Magenta

Episode notes

Alex Schmidt is joined by comedians/podcasters Caitlin Gill (GuaranteeShirts.com, new album ‘Major.’) and Alana Johnston (‘Self Esteem Party’ podcast) for a look at why magenta is secretly incredibly fascinating.

Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week’s bonus episode.

LINKS FOR THE GUESTS:

• GuaranteeShirts.com
• Caitlin Gill’s stand-up album Major.
• Caitlin Gill on Twitter
• ‘Self Esteem Party’ podcast (The Sonar Network)
• Alana Johnston on Twitter

RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE’S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:

• native-land.ca
• U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture
• Museum of Durham History

RESEARCH SOURCES:

• The Secret Lives Of Color by Kassia St. Clair
• CMYK All The Way: How mass-production printing technology, starting with the lithograph, was pushed forward thanks to a growing interest in color. (Tedium.co)
• The Remarkable Story of the World’s Rarest Stamp (Smithsonian Magazine)
• Sotheby’s auction page for The British Guiana One-Cent Black on Magenta
• The 1952 comic book Walt Disney’s Donald Duck and the Gilded Man (Smithsonian National Postal Museum)
• The Shade of Purple That Made the World More Colorful (Artsy.net)
• How Malaria Gave Us Mauve (Smithsonian SmartNews)
• Why Victorian Gardeners Loathed Magenta (J-Stor Daily) — they cite Dutch historian Willem J. Hornix, who says magenta was the aniline dye with the greatest impact on dyeing and printing, and the biggest reason companies scaled up their dye production capabilities.
• Battle of Magenta, 1859 (Encyclopedia Britannica)
• FiveBooks.com page featuring history books about The Risorgimento, and an interview with historian Carlotta Ferrara degli Uberti. If you dive deep on this period, the portion involving the Battle Of Magenta is called The Second Italian War Of Independence, or called The Franco-Austrian War.
• Encyclopedia Britannica entry for Victor Emmanuel II, who was King Of Sardinia during the Battle Of Magenta. He goes on to be the first King of Italy.
• Secretly Incredibly Fascinating Episode 40: “The Color Beige”
• OMG! Oxford English Dictionary Adds LOL to Its Pages (Wired)
• T-Mobile Has A Trademark On Magenta, Demands An Insurance Company Stop Using It (NPR)
• T-Mobile Wins Injunction Against AT&T’s Aio Wireless Over Use of Magenta (Recode)
• 9 Trademarked Colors (Mental Floss)
• LoveMagenta.com — this is the Deutsche Telekom website devoted to the color
• T-Mobile threatens smartwatch company over its use of magenta (The Verge)
• T-Mobile owner battles dataJAR over magenta logo (BBC News)
• T-Mobile Says It Owns Exclusive Rights To The Color Magenta (Ad Age)
• press release: “Owens Corning Marks 40 Years With MGM’s Pink Panther”
• After two decades, Cadbury finally cedes its purple trademark (TheDrum.com)