What is it about the color yellow exactly that makes it subjectively less visible against a white background than say, blue or red?

Question

What is it about the color yellow exactly that makes it subjectively less visible against a white background than say, blue or red?

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Answer 1

Our eyes just aren’t constructed to be able to see yellow. We see yellow when the parts of our eyes that can see red and green well both sort of see something a little bit and our brain determines that the color is between them.