primary color

Also known as primary colour, primary colors, primary colours

sets of colors that can be combined to make a useful range of colors

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A primary color is one of a basic set of colors that can be mixed together to create many other colors. Primary colors matter because they provide an efficient way to produce a wide range of colors from just a few starting points.

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Commons category: Primary colors

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The emission spectra of the three phosphors that define the additive primary colors of a CRT color video display. Other electronic color display technologies (LCD, Plasma display, OLED) have analogous sets of primaries with different emission spectra.

Primary colors are colorants or colored lights that can be mixed in varying amounts to produce a gamut of colors. This is the essential method used to create the perception of a broad range of colors in, e.g., electronic displays, color printing, and paintings. Perceptions associated with a given combination of primary colors can be predicted by an appropriate mixing model (e.g., additive, subtractive) that uses the physics of how light interacts with physical media, and ultimately the retina to be able to accurately display the intended colors.