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?
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It’s a different function. If you’re talking about additive colours, as are used on your computer display, then you use RGB–red and green together will make yellow, etc. For printing, the colours are subtractive (they’re absorbing some part of the incoming light), and the base colours there are actually cyan, magenta and yellow, not blue, red and yellow.
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