are red and purple primary colors?

Answer 1

Red is certainly a primary color and Purple is most certainly not because it is made of two or more colors, Blue and Red which are both primary colors to be more precise. The simple fact that it is made of more than one color makes it a Secondary color.

" The color wheel

A historical RYB color wheel showing primary and tertiary colors.
A modern CMY & RGB color wheel. Note the changed positions of the colors when compared with the previous image.Newton's Opticks first described spectral tone relationships in terms of a circle, which located purples (which Newton described as "more bright and more fiery" than spectral hues) between spectral red and violet. Newton used this circle to explain the colors resulting from proportional mixtures of any of his seven spectral hues in additive color mixture. (Newton's circle of colors).

Within two decades his circle was adopted by artists as a "color wheel" to explain color mixing with paints, or subtractive color mixture. During the 19th and early 20th centuries the circle was displaced by the colorimetric triangle (each corner for one of three primary colors) instead, but today the circle is again the dominant geometrical metaphor.

Historically, painters and printers (and color theorists relying on paint or ink mixtures) based their color wheel on the RYB primary colors (red/yellow/blue). This wheel was divided into sixths by the addition of three "secondary" paint mixtures (orange, green, and purple) created by the mixture of two primary colors in equal proportions. A third category, "tertiary" colors, was originally conceived as any color containing all three primary colors (in effect, muted or grayed colors), but contemporary practice is to define them as the mixture of a primary color with a neighbor secondary color; these are located on the color wheel between the primary and secondary colors in the mixture."

Answer 2

Red is, purple is not. Purple is found by combining two primary colors: red and blue. Yellow is the third primary color.

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Answer 3

Red is a primary color. Purple is the combination of the primary color Red and the primary color Blue.

Answer 4

Red, Yellow and Blue are primary colors.
Orange, Green and Purple are secondary.

Answer 5

Red blue and yellow are primary colors. Purple, orange and green are secondary colors, which means it takes two secondary colors to make them.

Answer 6

Red, Blue, Yellow, and White are primary colors because you can't mix two colors to get them. Every other concieveable color on the planet isn't, because you have to mix some combination of the above colors to get them. i.e. Purple=red and blue, Pink=red and white, Green=Blue and yellow...

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Answer 7

Red, yes. Purple, No. Colors that aren't mixed to be formed are primary, every other color is secondary.

Answer 8

I think it sounds like a trainwreck, partly because your 3 colors don't sound appealing together, and partly because your two add-in colors of navy or yellow make it sound even worse. I think you're trying to do too much. Normally, people have 2 main colors and then an accent color. So start with your "must have", and take it from there. It sounds like you want a deep, dark red, so aim for colors that go with this. There's lots of options. You could even take the shade of red that works (almost like a cranberry) and then lighten the tint until you find a complementary lighter tint that also works. Then add in champagne, black, or ivory etc. Even green would work with this.

Answer 9

The primary colors are red, yellow and blue. Scondary colors are green, orange and purple. I knew that and i'm 11

Answer 10

The primaries of the light spectrum are red, blue-violet and green. Together they make white light.

The primaries of pigment, such as paint, are magenta, yellow and cyan (sky blue). Often people refer to magenta as the same thing as red, but it is really more of a hot pink. That's why you can't get a good purple by mixing red and blue. Purple is a mixture of magenta and blue. When magenta, yellow and cyan are mixed together you get black.