What are the basic and primary colors?

Question

My friend told me that the primary colors are red,green and blue. I read in my school days that yellow, red and blue are the basic colors which cannot be created by mixing other colors. But green can be had by mixing

yellow and blue. Please clear my doubts.

Answer 1

they are yellow, red and blue u cant mix any colors to get them go out and try u will fail

Answer 2

The primary colours for light are: red, green and blue.

Mixing the light from all 3 primary colours forms white light.

Secondary colours are formed by mixing lights from just two of the 3 primary colours.

red+green= yellow

red+blue= magenta

green+blue= cyan

Answer 3

Almost all visible colors can be obtained by the additive color mixing of three colors. If the three colors of light can be mixed to produce white, they are called primary colors and the standard additive primary colors are red, green and blue.

Two colors that produce white when added together are called complementary. The color complementary to a primary color is called a secondary color. The complementary or secondary colors for red, green and blue are cyan, magenta and yellow respectively. These three colors are often referred to as the subtractive primary colors. When the three are combined in subtractive color mixing, they produce black.

Answer 4

yellow, red and blue are the primary colours

Answer 5

Red, Green and blue are the elements of light. By combining these colours ie. the television can make any colour. It is called an additive mixture. Red, Green and blue added together will make white light.

Mixing you colors with paint in school is a subtractive mixture. In print they will use CMY. Cyan, Magenta and yellow. In a subtractive mix, the white light will hit the print. If the print is white, all light is reflected from it. If it is Black, no light is reflected (in theory). According to the colors, different wavelengths of the light will be reflected from it and others will not.

And then there is the RYB, that is used in arts and in school. Mostly no technical usage, but is good for painting.

Answer 6

RED, GREEN AND BLUE!

Yellow is a combination of red and green!

Magneta (Violet) is a combination of red and blue!

Cyan (Aqua) is a combination of blue and green!

Haven't you ever heard of RGB (red, green and blue) or CYMK (cyan, magenta, yellow, and key (black)?

And that stuff that they tought you is school is nonsense!

Answer 7

Primary colours: Red, Blue, Yellow

Green- Blue + Yellow

Orange- Red + Yellow

Purple- Red + Blue

Answer 8

red, yellow and blue..and your right :) they are basic colors which cannot be created by mixing other colors.

Answer 9

You're both right!  The primary colors OF LIGHT are red, blue, and green.  When mixing light, you are adding colors.  The primary colors of pigment are magenta, cyan, and yellow.  Mixing pigments subtracts color.  It's an often confusing situation, but it's a fact nonetheless.

Answer 10

according to my art teacher and tec teacher they are      red, yellow and blue  

Answer 11

ya yellow red blue are primary colours

Answer 12

yellow red and blue = primary

green purple and orange = secondary

Answer 13

it depends on if your talking about light or substances.

Answer 14

Primary colors are sets of colors that can be combined to make a useful range (gamut) of colors. For human applications, three are often used; for additive combination of colors, as in overlapping projected lights or in CRT displays, the primary colors normally used are red, green, and blue. For subtractive combination of colors, as in mixing of pigments or dyes, such as in printing, the primaries normally used are magenta, cyan, and yellow.[1]

Any choice of primary colors is essentially arbitrary; for example, an early color photographic process, autochrome, typically used orange, green, and violet primaries.[2]

Psychovisual studies and the opponent process color model lead to the notion of four "pure" or "unique" colors:[23] red, yellow, green, and blue, with red and green defining one color-opponent axis, and yellow and blue a second color-opponent axis.

basic colors cannot be created by mixing other colors.In the 1969 study Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution, Brent Berlin and Paul Kay describe a pattern in naming "basic" colors (like "red" but not "red-orange" or "dark red" or "blood red", which are "shades" of red). All languages that have two "basic" color names distinguish dark/cool colors from bright/warm colors. The next colors to be distinguished are usually red and then yellow or green. All languages with six "basic" colors include black, white, red, green, blue and yellow. The pattern holds up to a set of twelve: black, grey, white, pink, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, brown, and azure (distinct from blue in Russian and Italian but not English).

Answer 15

primary colours are red, blue, yellow. this pic helps

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