If you must choose, then out of Yellow, Magenta and Cyan…

  1. Which one looks the most like an in between of two primary1 colors?
  2. Which one looks the least like an in between of two primary1 colors?
  3. Which one looks the most like one of the primary colors?
  4. Which one looks the most white?
  5. Which one looks the most black?

I’m asking, because I want to know if people see colors the same way as I do.
If my “red” is your “green” I expect different answers.

1 Primary colors are Red, Green and Blue.

  • Mothra@mander.xyz
    4·
    9 months ago

    1, 2, 4, 5: None

    3: Yellow, if by the primaries you refer to Yellow Red Blue.

    Also in your image I don’t see cyan pictured. You have yellow, magenta, and blue. My answers are for true Y, M,C hues.

    • Crackhappy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      I agree, but I think it also depends on the kind of monitor you have. For the blue, it’s almost cyan, but a little too dark.

      • folaht@lemmy.mlOP
        1·
        7 days ago

        I’m hoping to find people that might say this of yellow or magenta.

    • folaht@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      9 months ago

      I changed the picture because I don’t think my previous one correctly represented the colors.

      The fact that you say cyan was missing and instead you saw blue is I think interesting,
      and wonder if people would agree wit you.

  • monovergent@lemmy.ml
    2·
    9 months ago
    1. Yellow
    2. Cyan
    3. Cyan
    4. Yellow
    5. Magenta, by a hair over cyan

    In my mind, I’m lumping in cyan as a shade of blue and magenta as a shade between purple and red. Yellow for 4 since I could imagine magenta and cyan text being legible whiteboard marker colors, but not yellow.

    Edit: ran through again on an OLED display after a crappy TN panel on the first run. Same answers but with a larger margin for 5.

  • vala@lemmy.world
    2·
    9 months ago

    Yellow, Magenta and Cyan are not really “in between” 2 primary colors. More like a sum of 2 primary colors.

    We can explore this with the RGB color space model.

    R G B
1 0 0 - red
0 1 0 - green
0 0 1 - blue 
1 1 0 - yellow
0 1 1 - cyan
1 0 1 - magenta
1 1 1 - white
0 0 0 - black

    So you can see for instance that yellow is actually 2x as “bright” as red. In this model, white is 3x as bright as red.