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Red and a little bit of black mixed together.
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Why does a red shirt appear red?
To "make" any color involves one of two basic processes. There are e missive or additive, and absorptive or subtract methods to create color. When using e missive or light sources to create color, i.e. like a TV or computer monitor, three primary colors are used, red, green, and blue. This is additive color production. Each of the three primary colors add together to create the final color. If you use a magnifying glass, or even a small drop of water on your computer screen, you will see only three colors; red, green, and blue. Combined in "equal" amounts, your eyes perceive white. I say "equal" because the percentage of each color varies in order for the human eye to perceive "white" as the eye's sensitivity to color varies by wavelength or individual color. The actual levels of red, green, and blue to make "white" are not equal for the human eye. Now the flip side. As monitors emit light, ink can only subtract, or absorb light. Thus the primary colors for ink, are the opposite inverse primary colors of cyan, magenta, and yellow. Because inks subtract color, the inverse colors are used as compared to a TV or computer monitor. Now, on to your question The reason a red shirt, or anything red for that matter appears red, is because the dye/substance absorbs all other colors i.e. reflects the remaining colors. So a red shirt, in "color space" is really absorbing cyan, and reflecting magenta and yellow. The two together are perceived as red to the human eye. The exact shade of red depends on the exact amount of the three colors being absorbed. One could say the shirt is only reflecting red. However, as non-emitting color sources only absorb light, the red shirt thus must be absorbing cyan, and reflecting yellow and magenta which together combine to make "red". The theory of color is quite complex, but this is the basic reason something red, be it a shirt or an apple looks red. In theory, red+green+blue = white. And cyan-yellow-magenta =black. Inverse operation of emissive and abortive color creation. In real life, inks are not perfect which is why color printers have four colors, cyan, magenta, yellow, and black because c-m-y tends to give a dark brown and not black. So adding black allows the printer more ability to create all the colors it needs to and saves color inks which alone cannot create a pure black. Anything not emitting light is a subtract system while things emitting light are additive systems.
What primary pigment colors must be mixed to get red?
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