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This page contains the bare facts about colours, including primary colours and the differences between how colours are made using paints, light, and colour printers. For more detail, click here.
The final section contains more general (i.e less scientific) questions about colours.
| Primary colours in paint |
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Red, Yellow, Blue |
| Secondary colours (in paint) | Made by mixing | |
| Orange |
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Red and yellow |
| Green |
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Blue and yellow |
| Purple |
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Red and blue |
| Primary colours in light |
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Red, Green, Blue |
| Primary colours in printer ink |
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Cyan, Magenta, Yellow |
| Fourth colour ink commonly used in colour printers (the K in CMYK) |
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BlacK |
| Primary (light) | Made from (in pigments) | Primary (pigments) | Made from (in light) | ||
| Red |
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Yellow, Magenta |
Cyan |
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Green, Blue |
| Green |
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Yellow, Cyan |
Magenta |
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Red, Blue |
| Blue |
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Cyan, Magenta |
Yellow |
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Green, Red |
| The human eye is most sensitive to |
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Green |
| Word meaning 'dust–coloured': comes (via Pakistan) from a Persian word for dust or ashes |
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Khaki |
| Colour by which Harold Wilson's resignation honours list came to be known, after the colour of the paper on which Marcia Williams (Lady Falkender) was alleged to have drawn it up |
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Lavender |
| Midway between red and blue, in both the RGB and CMY colour models; "variously defined as purplish–red, reddish–purple or mauvish–crimson" (Wikipedia). Named after a battle of 1859, during the Second Italian War of Independence; previously known as fuchsine, a name that was invented for a dye discovered in the same year as the battle; sometimes known as fuchsia |
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Magenta |
| Also shares its name with Frank N. Furter's maid, and sister of Riff Raff, in the Rocky Horror (Picture) Show | ||
| Colour that has been a sign of royalty and extreme wealth since at least the 15th century BC, when it was used in ancient Phoenicia; obtained from a particular species of murex (sea snail), needing a quarter of a million creatures to make one ounce of dye, which is literally worth its weight in gold; Queen Elizabeth I forbade anyone other than close members of the Royal Family to wear it |
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Purple |
| Named after the rich brown pigment derived from the ink sac of the common cuttlefish; the word is the Latinised form of the Greek word for the cuttlefish |
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Sepia |
| Name is the French word for the mole (because it's the colour of its fur) |
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Taupe |
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