Primary color

:This page is about the colors. For the book and movie, see Primary Colors

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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. Traditionally, the colors red, yellow, and blue are considered to be primary pigments. This is simply incorrect, however. (Or at least, this is a misnomer. Magenta and cyan are sometimes called primary red and primary blue respectively, and this is what many people talk about when they say "red, yellow and blue are primary colors", meaning subtractive primary colors.) 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.

Related Topics:
Color - Gamut - Color space - Red - Yellow - Blue - Pigment - Basis vector

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