Rethinking the Color Wheel

THE ARTIST'S PRIMARIES:
  • primary colors should be possible to mix every other color out of the three primaries
    • blue, yellow, red
  • secondary colors
    • violet, green, orange
COMPLEMENTS:
  • any color that holds a position directly across the wheel from another 
    • when mixed together, they make a gray
CHROMA
  • perceived strength of a surface color seen in relation to white
  • saturation, a related term, properly refers to the color purity of light
  • colors increase in chroma as it nears the rim of the wheel
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Traditional Wheel
TRADITIONAL WHEEL
  • problems; the primary colors are not set in stone
    • many hues are secondary or composite by nature
    • spacing of colors is out of proportion (there are more pigments for warmer colors)
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Munsell Wheel
THE MUNSELL SYSTEM
  • structure is based on 10, evenly spaced spectral hues
  • allows for exact numerical descriptions of color notes
CYAN, MAGENTA, AND YELLOW
  • mix the widest range of high chroma colors
  • used in the world of printing
  • CMY
RED, GREEN, AND BLUE
  • primary colors of light as opposed to pigment
  • used by lighting designers
  • RGB
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Yurmby Wheel
THE YURMBY WHEEL
  • placing RGB evenly between CMY creates a universal color wheel
  • counting clockwise from the top is: YRMBCG ("You Ride My Bus, Cousin Gus")

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