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  2. Color symbolism - Wikipedia

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    Color symbolism in art, literature, and anthropology is the use of color as a symbol in various cultures and in storytelling. There is great diversity in the use of colors and their associations between cultures [ 1 ] and even within the same culture in different time periods. [ 2 ]

  3. Primary color - Wikipedia

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    The most common color mixing models are the additive primary colors (red, green, blue) and the subtractive primary colors (cyan, magenta, yellow). Red, yellow and blue are also commonly taught as primary colors (usually in the context of subtractive color mixing as opposed to additive color mixing), despite some criticism due to its lack of ...

  4. Color theory - Wikipedia

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    These CMY primary colors were reconciled with the RGB primaries, and subtractive color mixing with additive color mixing, by defining the CMY primaries as substances that absorbed only one of the retinal primary colors: cyan absorbs only red (−R+G+B), magenta only green (+R−G+B), and yellow only blue-violet (+R+G−B). It is important to ...

  5. National colours - Wikipedia

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    National colours are frequently part of a country's set of national symbols.Many states and nations have formally adopted a set of colours as their official "national colours" while others have de facto national colours that have become well known through popular use.

  6. Elements of art - Wikipedia

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    The last is chroma or intensity, distinguishing between strong and weak colors. [6] A visual representation of chromatic scale is observable through the color wheel that uses the primary colors. [3] Color is divided into various classes, primary color, secondary color, complimentary color, tertiary color, analogous color and neutral color.

  7. RYB color model - Wikipedia

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    An RYB color chart from George Field's 1841 Chromatography; or, A treatise on colours and pigments: and of their powers in painting Comparison between CMYK model and RYB model: ideal CMY (a), printed CMY (b), RYB approximation (c) The 1613 RYB color scheme of Franciscus Aguilonius (Francisci Agvilonii), with primaries yellow (flavus), red (rubeus), and blue (caeruleus) arranged between white ...

  8. List of colors (alphabetical) - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 14 December 2024. For other color lists, see Lists of colors. This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. Please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources. Find sources: "List of colors" alphabetical ...

  9. ROYGBIV - Wikipedia

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    The uneven color division along the color circle correlates with the intervals of the musical major scale. Illustration from Newton's Opticks, Fourth Edition, 1730. In the Renaissance, several artists tried to establish a sequence of up to seven primary colors from which all other colors could be mixed.