Managenta
Many ask me: “What does Managenta mean?”
To be honest, not much really. I’ve tried to retroactively give it any meaning. I pretty much failed at that too. So here is, without further ado, perhaps one of the most horribly romanticized stories ever:
“As a kid I was fascinated by these otherworldly names on the printer. Cyan. Magenta. The former had a cold and calculated ring to it, the latter was magical and majestic. The latter had the benefit of the doubt because it had more a’s. I love myself the sound of some a’s, it’s probably my favorite vowel. It’s magical somehow.
But there already exists a Magenta Software game developer, so what was I to do? Somewhere down the line I had the infallible idea of combining it with Mana into Managenta. One can never go wrong with more a’s! Mana has obvious ties to modern fantasy and games, which is a plus, but it has been rooted in magic for ages.
So in a way, the word Managenta is the ultimate expression of the magical for me.
And that might just be the drive for my curiosity. To find the magic of life. In the extraordinary and the ordinary. In fiction. In everyday life. In moments. In words.
And that is what Managenta means to me.”