Talk:Secondary color

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At Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates it says orange = red + yellow, not belonging on either of the 2 sections of this article. Can anyone modify this article to identify where it belongs?? 66.245.89.19 22:56, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)


 * Where it belongs? Not here. It's my mistake, or technically Three Rings' (the Y!PP creators) mistake.  The game really does produce orange from red and yellow, although that's technically wrong.  I'll make mention of it in the Y!PP article. Azure Haights 19:31, Dec 2, 2004 (UTC)


 * The primary colors are different in light and paint. If you mix red and yellow paint (dye, ink, etc.) you really will get orange, so the game isn't wrong, this article just isn't complete.  See Color theory,, , or , the latter of which complicates things further by observing that "the number of 'primary' colors depends on the type of creature that is doing the looking".    &mdash;Triskaideka 16:51, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * Triskaideka, the article is a stub, and you say the article isn't complete, so why can't you just complete it yourself?? 66.245.13.73 00:11, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)


 * Same reason you can't, I imagine. I'm not well acquainted with the subject beyond what I said above, and I don't have the time to learn right now.  I added a couple of sections based on what I wrote, but a thorough treatment of the subject will have to come from someone with a better scientific background in it.   &mdash;Triskaideka 18:47, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Dutch link
The link to the Dutch article does not look anything like this article translated. Can any Wikipedian who understands Dutch (I don't) please check to see the translation of the Dutch article and add it into here?? Georgia guy 00:46, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * And still, the Esperanto link looks different. Georgia guy 17:16, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)


 * I'll insert the most relevant part of the Dutch article. Written by moi of course :o)--MWAK 14:49, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Color Wheel
This page should NOT be added to the color wheel page. The concept of a color wheel comes from a very incomplete understanding of color and deals only with subtractive color mixing. I understand it is the concept of color most people are familiar with but it neglects an incredible amount of the characteristics of color. If anything the color wheel is a representation of a small portion of this article. Wikipedia claims it would like more on this subject but it is terse as written. It should not be stub. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.136.192.1 (talk) 18:17, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

Yea it should Sarah Rogerson202 (talk) 15:18, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

CMY are not "ideal" primary colors
There is a lot of inconsistent information on color theory everywhere(very visible in wikipedia).

CMY are not "ideal" primary colors for mixing pigments; what makes them ideal? Many painters use RYB to mix pigments and produce wonderful paintings. Different sets of pigments will give different gamuts...in general, hard to define one gamut better than the other based on color of the pigment alone. Maneesh (talk) 22:21, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

CMY is, AFAICT, the best if you restrict yourself to three colors. That's why they're used in printing. Of course RYB works fine too, but we're talking about maximizing the range of possible colours. It would seem that CMY does that (assuming you have true CMY, which many pigments presumably are not). — kwami (talk) 01:48, 28 November 2013 (UTC)

Ok I need to qualify this a bit better, the gist of the statement is correct, but the whole article needs qualifiers so that "color" and "substance" are not confused. E.g. statements about "Mixing these pigments in equal amounts produces"....this ignores all of the properties of pigments like tinting stength etc. CMY are indeed ideal subtractive primary colors of pigments, but not *necessarily* ideal for mixing real pigments (the actual realized gamut volume of a set of pigments is a matter of experiment). Handprint (previous link) elaborates on substance uncertainty and doesn't suggest only CMY for palettes. We do need a consistent picture of color theory on wikipedia...Maneesh (talk) 19:14, 28 November 2013 (UTC)