what are the primary colors?

Question

A few years ago while in college, we learned that red, blue and yellow were not the primary colors (anymore) but dont know the new ones!

Answer 1

A couple of definitions apply to your question.

A primary color or colour is a color that cannot be created by mixing other colors in the gamut of a given color space. Primary colors may themselves be mixed to produce most of the colors in a given color space: mixing two primary colors produces what is generally called a secondary color, mixing a secondary with a primary produces what is sometimes called a tertiary color. Traditionally, the colors red, yellow, and blue are considered to be primary pigments in the art world. However, this is not technically true, or is at least inaccurate. The three primary colors of pigment are magenta, yellow, and cyan. (Thus when calling "red, yellow, and blue" the primary colors of pigment, "red" is an inaccurate way of saying "magenta" and "blue" is an inaccurate way of saying "cyan"). Blue and green are actually secondary pigments, but they are primary colours of light, along with red. If the color space is considered as a vector space, the primary colors can be regarded as a set of basis vectors for that space.

Any three colors (or frequencies) of light which produce white light when combined with the correct intensity are called primary colors of light. There are a variety of sets of primary colors; yet,the most common set of primary colors is red (R), green (G) and blue (B). When red, green and blue light are mixed or added together with the proper intensity, white (W) light is obtained.

These sites should help. Best of luck.

Answer 2

The Primary colors are Red, Yellow, and Blue. Yellow and blue make green! Red and yellow make orange! and Red and blue make green

Answer 3

From an artistic standpoint, red, blue, and yellow are the primary colors. But scientifically, they are red, blue, and green. This is because light is made up of red, blue, and green. The colors are really magenta, cyan, and green, but they're basically just different shades of red, blue, and green.

Answer 4

I believe "new" refers to CMYK, the "subtractive" colors of Cyan (sorta greeny-blue) Magenta (purpley-red) Yellow and in printing anyway Black (equal amounts of Cyan Magenta and Yellow will theoretically produce black). There is also the "new" "additive" colors of Red Blue Green (like TVs and computer monitors) work as the "additive" primary colors. The "new" CMYK or RGB is just a supposed better way to express how the human eye's cones determine color in nature as opposed to art paints of RBY to produce all the other colors. Its pretty confusing but there's a lot of info on the web.

Answer 5

The primary colors in light are: red, green and blue

In pigmentation, they are magenta, yellow and cyan. (red, yellow, blue)

Black and white can also be used to develop the different shades in colors.

Answer 6

Red, yellow, and blue are traditionally taught as the primary colors when referring to paint; "red" and "blue" are actually misnomers for "magenta" and "cyan."

When referring to light, the primaries are red, green, and blue.

Answer 7

The primary colors in nature are : reg, blue and yellow ...
while in computer ... it's RGB ( red , green and blue )

Answer 8

I just graduated from Parsons School in NYC. All art students know that the primary colors remain
RED,
BLUE and
YELLOW.
It's logical that all other colors are derived from this traditional trio. Can you really think of any other colors which has this flexibility?

Answer 9

The basic colours are: red, yellow and blue!

Answer 10

i think they're still blue yellow red