The difference between RGB and RYB.

Question

I always remember learning that the three primary colors are Red, Yellow, and Blue. Many people rather insist that they are Red, Green, and Blue.

When you take paints or markers or something else along those lines, combing RYB will give you all the colors, whereas RGB will not. Furthermore, electronic displays and lights use RGB as their primary colors, not RYB.

So what exactly is the “true” set of primary colors. Or are there just two sets that function differently?

In: Technology

Answer 1

RYB are the real primary colors.

RGB are the primary colors for video technologies because the screens emit light, which is countered with that extra blue.

Printers use Cyan Magenta and Yellow (CMY) because they layer the colors to make darker versions since they cannot be made to be lighter.