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Design Design Foundations Understanding Aesthetics Format, Line & Shape

Tonnie Fanadez
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Primary Colors

On this video at 1.27 Mat Helme mentions the primary colors are Red, Blue and Yellow. Why is Yellow a primary color whereas you can get it if you mix Red and Green.

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Jason Anders
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Jason Anders
Jason Anders
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Hi Tonnie Fanadez

If you mix red and green... you get brown, not yellow. Yellow cannot be achieved by mixing, therefore it is one of the primary colors. Crayola explains it all.

:) :dizzy: