Title: 4.1. RGB and CMYK
Course: EN_Colour theory > Section: 4. Primary colours and colour spaces

The difference between light colours and body colours

Primary colors form the basis for all other shades.

Humans perceive three base colors: magenta, cyan, and yellow. Every other color we see consists of a combination of these three colors in varying amounts, brightnesses, tints, and shades.

Traditionally, was considered red, blue, and yellow to be the primary colors, but in research was shown that magenta, cyan, and yellow also describe our experience of color.

Colour spaces

There is a difference between screen colours and print colours.

Screen colours/light colours (monitors, PC screens, beamers etc.) consist of RGB colours.
Print colours/body colours (e.g. printed journals and magazines) consist of CMYK colours.

Body colours are also e.g. oil paints, acrylic paints, solid and tinting colours etc. - however, these are subject neither to the RGB nor to the CMYK colour space.