• owenfromcanada@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I’m saying that, with respect to color reproduction, paints work exactly the same as dyes and pigments. You can’t make magenta paint from red, blue, and yellow. So the “primary colors” of paint are actually CMY.

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      2 months ago

      Yeah it’s just historically been very difficult to make magenta and cyan paints so ryb has stood in for cmy