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  2. RYB color model - Wikipedia

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    RYB (an abbreviation of redyellowblue) is a subtractive color model used in art and applied design in which red, yellow, and blue pigments are considered primary colors. [1] Under traditional color theory , this set of primary colors was advocated by Moses Harris , Michel Eugène Chevreul , Johannes Itten and Josef Albers , and applied by ...

  3. Complementary colors - Wikipedia

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    The traditional color wheel model dates to the 18th century and is still used by many artists today. This model designates red, yellow and blue as primary colors with the primary–secondary complementary pairs of red–green, blue-orange, and yellow–purple.

  4. Color theory - Wikipedia

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    The split-primary palette is a color-wheel model that relies on misconceptions to attempt to explain the unsatisfactory results produced when mixing the traditional primary colors, red, yellow, and blue. Painters have long considered red, yellow, and blue to be primary colors.

  5. Harmony (color) - Wikipedia

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    The traditional RYB (redyellowblue) color wheel, often used for selecting harmonious colors in art The RGB (red–green–blue) color wheel, matching most technological processes, but exhibiting different complementary colors The Munsell color wheel attempts to divide hues into equal perceptual differences.

  6. Subtractive color - Wikipedia

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    RYB (red, yellow, blue) is the traditional set of primary colors used for mixing pigments. It is used in art and art education, particularly in painting. It predated modern scientific color theory. Red, yellow, and blue are the primary colors of the RYB color "wheel". The secondary colors, violet (or purple), orange, and green (VOG) make up ...

  7. Color wheel - Wikipedia

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    An analogous color scheme is made up of colors next to each other on the wheel. For example, red, orange, and yellow are analogous colors. Monochromatic colors are different shades of the same color. For example, light blue, indigo, and cyan blue. Complementary colors are colors across from each other on a color wheel. For example, blue and orange.

  8. Color term - Wikipedia

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    Specifically, blue and other darker shades continue to be described as black, yellow and orange colors are classified with red, and other bright colors continue to be classified with white. In the Bambara language , there are three color terms: dyema (white, beige), blema (reddish, brownish), and fima (dark green, indigo, and black).

  9. List of colors by shade - Wikipedia

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    Magenta is variously defined as a purplish-red, reddish-purple, or a mauvish–crimson color. On color wheels of the RGB and CMY color models, it is located midway between red and blue, opposite green. Complements of magenta are evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 500–530 nm.