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The colour wheel and colour models

Lesson 7 of 27 in Colour.

Color Theory - MISCONCEPTIONS about PRIMARY COLORS · Florent Farges - arts
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A colour wheel en.wikipedia.org is hue bent into a circle so that the far side of any colour is its opposite. Newton drew the first one. It is a diagram, not a law of nature, and the version you were taught at school was built for mixing paint.

complementaries sit oppositethe wheel is pigment convention, not physics
A twelve-step colour wheel with a complementary pair marked.
A matchbox label on a yellow ground: a blue and green peacock with its tail trailing behind it, the name MOR in green above the Devanagari मोर, the words fifty's safety matches and retail price 25 Ps running vertically up either side, and HONEY MATCH WORKS, SATTUR along the bottom.
A matchbox label with a blue and green peacock on yellow, named in English and Devanagari. The bird is the first thing the eye lands on.Peacock, Indian matchbox label. Unrecorded designer, for an Indian match manufacturer.Wikimedia Commons/Public domain
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    Which of these words means this? “A way of describing a colour as numbers. RGB does it with light, CMYK with ink, HSL with how people talk.”

    • Colour model
    • Additive colour
    • Working space
    • Tint
  2. Question 2, locked

    Which of these words means this? “Whichever colours a given model refuses to make from the others. They change between models, which is why the argument about primaries never ends.”

    • Soft proof
    • Primary
    • Shade
    • Subtractive

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