Practice question · True or false
Red, yellow and blue are the primaries of subtractive mixing in the same sense that red, green and blue are the primaries of additive mixing.
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- Ask which set a colour printer actually uses.
- One of the two sets is a workshop tradition rather than a result.
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False
Why
False. The subtractive primaries are cyan, magenta and yellow, which is what every printing process uses. Red, yellow and blue is a studio convention inherited from the eighteenth century, and its limits are visible: an RYB palette cannot mix a clean turquoise or a clean pink at all.
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