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its crazy how i had this same thought process one time and just spent forever trying to make a perfect color wheel

Quick note, the K in CMYK does not stand for black, it stands for key. The key functions as the "base" color for printers, which is added as the darkest tone before the other layers are applied. Black usually makes the most sense here since most printing is done on white (or at least lighter) paper... however, a printer's key can theoretically be any color, and although it's rare to see non-black keys, it's also not completely set in stone.

this is actually such a high quality video even if it looks simple its informative, and the animation its conveyed through is actually rly nice

5:56 The reason magenta isn't on there is because it actually doesn't exist. That color is a mix of red and blue which means it activates those cones and so it would obviously go for the middle one, which is green. However, the green cone isn't activated, so the brain panics and makes magenta.

The main thing is that colors opposite each other on the "bad" color wheel are meant to mix into unattractive colors like grey and brown, and Yellow seemed primary because no colors seem to mix in physical objects like paint to make it, or at least not brightly. The primaries were defined by what colors you can't mix others to get. Blue and yellow would seemingly mix to make green.

This deserves more views

Please note that adding colors works differently depending on the medium Adding all the colors of light will make white light. Adding all the colors of paint will make black paint (or at least a really really dark brown)

Fun fact: The "wrong" color wheel is made for artists and paint mixing, but mixing paint colors actually act very similarly to additive color mixing. For example if you mix red and green paint you get a weird "brownish" color, which is actually a shade of yellow, but darker. Yeah, so the paint color wheel is useful in its own ways.

Not directly related to the video, but i think Web-Safe Colors are a nice pixel-art palette. Web-Safe Colors are 3-digit hex codes where every value is a multiple of 3 (such as #000, #F63, and #90C). If you want to represent them as 6-digit hex codes, just duplicate each digit (#000000, #FF6633, and #9900CC). I like them because they include most of the colors you could want, but in rather large increments so you can get a “limited palette” feel and spend less time selecting colors. They’re called Web-Safe Colors because they were originally designed to appear consistent across all 8-bit displays for the purpose of making websites. Sometimes I like to modify the Web-Safe palette a bit to suit a certain project. For example, I could replace the second digit of each value with 0 for the background and F for characters, so that I can use the “same” color on the characters and background without them blending together (this also makes the background slightly darker so it’s easier on your eyes).

okay, okay. I actually had this exact same problem when thinking about color theory a couple months ago. I wanted to individualize each color to make them as distinct as possible, but the RYB wheel had way too many oranges and not enough cools. So after extensive research, I also remade the color wheel to be exactly like this guy's, with red, yellow, green, cyan, deep blue, and magenta as the primary colors and orange, lime, teal, light blue, purple, and rose as the secondaries. It fits much better and combines the RGB with CMY schemes! Edit: after finishing the video I noticed you had an among us reference, so I will explain my reason for my color theory... among us. I wanted to figure out the most optimal colors for among us characters because I didn't like the new ones. There you go.

It feels strange to say, but arguing what the primary colours were in highschool was the first time i realized how much evidence some people were willing to ignore to avoid changing their beliefs

What really makes my blood boil is not only the fact that for some reason so little people in art dont know about this and that they teach the wrong colour wheel in school but for SOME REASON when I tell people what primary colors actually are they act like Im crazy and when i TRY to explain they pretend im arguing with them LIKE BRO ITS NOT MY OPINION THIS IS A SCIETIFICT FACT WHY IS THIS CONCEPT SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND

im shocked at the fact this has so few views. this is such a cool thought and the way people are taught ryb first has always been weird considering rgb is how we perceive light.

This is why i like FlipaClip's kind of colour wheel. It has *every single colour.* and you can't argue with that.

Great video! Regarding where to put UV, thanks to an unusual eye surgery I can see UV light in one of my eyes. It looks white, tinged with just a hint of electric blue. The only way I know I'm seeing UV is that my eyes disagree about the brightness and color of what I'm looking at. My ophthalmologist explained that the cornea and lens are mostly opaque to UV, so normally none of it reaches your retina. Therefore the color-detecting cone cells never evolved differential responses at UV frequencies; they all respond equally to UV light. Equal inputs from the RGB detectors is interpreted as white, so UV looks white.

The more i learn about color theory, the less sense it makes.

my science class just finished the light section and when my teacher was teaching about the additive colours of light, i was definitely confused on why yellow was a primary colour ur vid def helped me understand all that a bit better, and its great to know why the rgb/cmy way is correct

Ikr! We’re all taught red blue and yellow were the primary colours, but cmyk are for paint/printers and RGB is for computer screens! SINCE WHEN WAS THE RED BLUE AND YELLOW INVOLVED

It’s really satisfying how RGB and CMY are organized in overlapping triads on the revised wheel

This is actually such a good point- I've always just done like 3 separate wheels for the different types of light/colour theory (like one for CMYK, one for RGB, etc) but having it laid out like this makes a lot more sense I think. Good job!

5:35 the reason why the second colors/CMB are so prominent is interesting. The color bar just shows the fully saturated colors. For RGB, this is easy to understand: Red - 1,0,0 (100% red, 0% green and blue) Green - 0,1,0 Compared to 50% grey: 0.5, 0.5, 0 5 If you want to de-saturate the red, you can make it "more like grey" by bringing the channel values closer together: 0.75, 0.25, 0.25. So "saturation" has something to do with the difference between the highest and lowest colour channel. But the secondary colours manage to be fully saturated while having two channels at 100% brightness. Like yellow: 1,1,0. So in RGB colour sliders, they often stick out as brighter than the rest.

This is a pretty cool vid, tbh we should have a cmyk colour wheel as that would make things easier for digital artists.

thank you so much for this video, its so hard to sleep at night when the color green is so under appreciated

The normal color wheel does make sense it’s just that traditional art uses Red,Blue,Yellow, while digital uses Red,Blue,Green. Because the whole thing for primary colors is that thy can’t be made by mixing other colors, so for traditional art if you mixed red and green paint you wouldn’t get yellow you would get a brownish color, hence why yellow for traditional art is a primary. The wheel created in the video is good for digital artists, but I don’t think the complimentary colors would quite match up, but that’s my opinion.

Ever since I was a child, I thought Cyan had more of a reason to exist as a secondary color than Orange did.

I don’t know why, but I love your animation so much, it makes my eyes happy

As someone who already knew color theory pretty good, this was an endlessly entertaining animated explanation of it all, and a surprisingly compact video to boot. I was rewinding just because it was that funny. Good job.

TBH I spent some time in my life getting annoyed at people putting orange with these six 'main' colours. It just started making no sense when I got to care about RGB.

Finally someone with the same opinion as me! I keep trying to explain this whole concept to people, but they never seem to understand. I'm glad I could find more like-minded people here.

your channel gonna blow up. so underrated

This video is awesome! I would love to see a part 2. Colour is a topic that really interests me.

0:28 **sees red and teal labeled as 'doesn't go well together,'** me: bLOCKED AND REPORTED

I think the color wheel stretches the warm colors so that complimentary colors sit opposite each other, and other color combos like triadic or tetriadic are easy for us artists to find. It definitely seems like more of a usage choice then a scientific one. I'd be interested to see a version of your color wheel that emphasizes cmyk, while still putting everything in an easily sortable location - if such a wheel is even possible? Good video btw! Gives me something to chew on next time Im messing with colors

keep making these! its super engaging and funny, while also being informative in an easy-to-digest way. can’t believe you only have 5k subs!!

great vid, definetly deserves more views

This was funny yet actually a really good video. Bravo man.

I ended up doing a similar thing for my color system, but went all the way to quaternary colors with a name for each tint, shade, and tone along with white, black, and grey. This gives my system 99 easy to remember colors with conventional color names. I am still tweaking it, but the quaternary hues are Red, Vermilion, Orange, Amber, Yellow, Peridot, Chartreuse, Lime, Green, Emerald, Mint, Turquoise, Cyan, Capri, Azure, Cerulean, Blue, Indigo, Violet, Purple, Magenta, Fuchsia, Rose, and Crimson.

This video is halarious! Awesome job man you had me laughing out loud. Your animations are top tier humor

Love that color change early in the video when one of the circles changed to green. The attention to detail makes for great humor

A really informative video, noice

Very interesting video, and I do like your proposed new version. Appreciate your support of cyan and magenta independence as well!

In russian cyan is голубой (pronounced ga-loo-boi) and the darker blue is синий (pronounced si-niy) ( completley different words, and they are always taught to even like kindergarteners). So basically you (english) will say blue object, where its hard to differentiate (for an average person (not an artist)) wether its light blue or dark blue, but i (russian) can say синий and its obvious im talking bout blue (as in the rgb one)

This is an absolute banger of a video

A very fun and informative video! Loved it! Definitely would like to see more long format rant/ explanatory videos!

this helps me understand some things about color now thanks

The colour wheel most commonly taught and seen on google has yellow as a primary instead of green because paint does act differently than digital regarding colour, red and blue paint makes purple so if you want magenta you need to add either a premixed pink or white and more red. To make green you just need yellow and blue. Both colour wheels are correct in their respective contexts like you mentioned in the video. This was fun to watch and I finally learned why computers use rgb :D

This is very inspirational for me. Brilliant content , and extremely informative in such a short space of time. Please do part two. Im I’m really looking forward to it as im working with a friend on daltonism, a.k.a. colourblindness monochromacy and partial monochromacy keep up the great work. There is so much to be done for all vision types

This was very entertaining. Thanks for making this.

I had this exact thought process a few months ago. Also to answer the end of the video about Magenta, it's technically not a "real" color in the sense that it doesn't exist as a wavelength of light, but rather just a phenomenon generated by our eyes when we see a mixture of violet and red light.

feels kinda empty without no copyrighted generic background music, really nice tho. also.. REDISH MAGENTA EXISTS?!!?

You have good animation skills

Awesome video man, I was thinking of the very same thing yesterday (about the uv and ir light placement). One thing I would like is some cited sources for some of the stuff you pulled from. Otherwise great video format, it was fun to watch and had fantastic editing!

rgb is used for colors of light (screens, lights, etc) cmyk is used for colors of pigment (paint, printers, etc.) theyre subtractive because lets say if you mixed cyan and magenta pigment, the cyan pigment absorbs red light only and the magenta pigment absorbs green light only so combined the absorb green and red light, only reflecting the blue light, making blue they absorb all colors any individual pigment in the mix absorbs meanwhile with colors of light, adding colors reflects more light into your eye

YES! Someone else who believes cyan is its own color and not a shade of blue!

this is rly well made

I love this. This channel has much potential.

My teacher just said, "the color reflects off the thing, that's what color it is," or something like that. So it made no sense to me, I thought, "why would the color it tries to get rid of be the color it is?" But when you said, "it deflects off the object and into our eyes," it made so much sense to me. (I did know abt the white and black colored stuff btw)

03:45 f: The "k" for "black" stands for "key" because the traditional black printing plate was called the key plate. However, as a German speaker, I have another mnemonic: Using black ink or toner improves the light- dark contrast, and the German word for "contrast" is basically the same word but beginning with "k".

I was thinking of this a while ago, and was even planning on making a video on it, I’m so glad someone covered this topic

Wow! And it works quite well for color mixing too: a warm blue/indigo (blue on your color wheel) mixed with yellow gets a very dull grey-green, cyan + scarlet will not get you purple, and pink/magenta and green will get you grey as well. As someone learning watercolor, I'm already thinking this way in my color mixing, and seeing it laid out so nicely is very beautiful!

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Some things you may have forgot to mention and that I think are important: • The average person has 3 cone cells that each detect red, green, and blue light. This is why RGB screens use these colors; because they produce the highest range of colors. You could use different colored LCDs, but they would produce more washed-out colors compared to the red, green, and blue ones since those are the ones that your eye directly detects. If you mix yellow and cyan light, your eyes will see a desaturated green, not a non-existent color. • The entire spectrum of colors does not include colors between red and blue because they are only a mix of the red and blue wavelengths, not actual wavelengths. Going beyond red is infrared, and beyond blue is ultraviolet. If you look at the visible spectrum of light through a prism, or at a rainbow, you will not see purple unless it is a faded double/triple rainbow, and there is another one nested inside it. And a slightly irrelevant one that I find interesting: • Computer screens cannot display all the colors you see. They cannot display colors beyond red, green, and blue. The colors you see on a screen are mixes of the red, green, and blue wavelengths. A sodium-vapor lamp only produces light near the wavelength 589 nm. Why is this relevant? With a sodium-vapor lamp as the only light source in an area, you would not be able to distinguish colors. You would see objects that reflect 589 nm as whiter than objects that reflect light in different wavelengths. If you took an image on a computer that tries to approximate this, you would not see things like this, and would still be able to distinguish colors. This is because the display still only uses red, green, and blue.

subbed b/c of this, good video!

I love this video! Reminds me a lot of cheesy hfj!

I mean... you could just use another representation like the cube, which is commonly used for rgb and cmy, or maybe a cone or cylinder, which are commonly used to explain the HSV colour space. The problem with those colour spaces is, by the way, that they don't cover every colour you can see, sooo, maybe just use the CIELAB colour space and its model. It's pretty much the most perceptually uniform colour space you can get, which means the relationships between colours are as we perceive them (the distance between orange and red for example) and covers every colour humans can see, which means it isn't bound to a medium. It would be useful for traditional art. For digital art an rgb color wheel or the cube makes sense since the gamut is smaller than the CIELAB gamut, but if you want to print things using the CMY model as a basis for your colour wheel is a good idea.

This is an awesome video but I have a question, why is yellow not a primary colour? You may have already explained this because I was watching with background noise

Amazing video I love how you used simple and funny drewings to explain things

i love that this is like a never ending topic in the art world. James gurney mention this in his book “light and color” and essentially there are basically more than just one type of color wheel.

The classic color wheel is also helpful for color theory. The colors opposite each other are complementary.

2:57 Bruh, I always confuse yellow as a primary color and thinking whether if was green out blue as the last primary color 😂😂 got a but of shock after realizing that it's not. Edit: Yo, I should check my comments before commenting, even I can't understand what I wrote (and I don't intend to fix it)

Amazing video! I love the humor! I think that you are really underrated!

I pretty much feel the same way on every single part of this video. Extremely validating thank yoy

3:08 ParashockX moment

I thought this guy had at least 100k+ subs, I was quite surprised to find out I was wrong

The editing on this video is so good

please part 2 this is so great i wanna learn more about this

0:17 I see 3 identical blues and bright blue and green and barely yellow and orangey-red and red

What is most curious for me is that color despite being an objective quality of any object, is largely perceived through language. Some people in the comments already mentioned how Russian has one additional primary color word for azure (голубой) as opposed to blue (синий). Which is why there's less ambiguity inside the cool color spectrum in Russian compared to English. But there's more to this. Even inside a particular language, different words for color aren't the same. For example red and blue - both primary words for color. However notice how red us much less ambiguous than blue. You say "red", and it's a very specific color, not red-orange, not pink, not rose, but *red*, but you say "blue" and that is instead perceived as wide variety of shades, almost the entire cool part of the spectrum can be described as blue. Or well at least that's how it is for me and my immediate surroundings. Still, that's a thing I find interesting.

Amazing I’ve always wanted to make a video about this exact subject thx !

It really makes sense. I like it!

Fun fact, violet and magenta are just each chart's ideal purple. And since their respective ideal complementaries are yellow and green, chartreuse is complementary in both wheels to the tertiary purple. Also, just wait till you find out about the _natural color system_ , oh boy.

FINALLY SOMEONE FUCKING SAID IT I'VE BEEN TELLING PEOPLE THIS STUFF FOR **YEARS** AMATEUR ARTISTS SPREADING **LIES** LIKE THE OPPOSITE OF ORANGE IS BLUE AND NOT YELLOW OR GREEN IS THE OPPOSITE OF RED (The opposite of orange is azure (blue-cyan.)) If cyan and azure are shades of blue, and lime and aqua (green-cyan) are shades of green, then orange and rose (magenta-red, I sometimes call it false-red flol, the type of red like in Super Sayian God Goku- the first one-) are shades of red. Which is backed up historically, which is why people with orange hair, are called redheads, and same for animals, because orange is named after the fruit, and was considered a shade of red until recently in history.

Good video and good humor !!! I hope u make more like this

I never understood the point of RYB color wheel. Good video!

Since each person perceives color slightly differently, and we have a varying sensitivity to colors and light intensity, there is a unique color wheel for each and every one of us.

I found this when it had 200 views now it's has 50k keep up the great work ❤

Thanks for sharing! Keep blowing peoples' minds!

This is probably one of the most incomplete and misinformative take on the topic I have seen in a while. I can guess why, reading the video description, but I think you should do some thorough research on color theory and vision before releasing an "educational" video on the topic...

Paint isn't additive or subtractive though. When you mix 2 paints you get the average colour between them, hence why primaries with higher contrast are used. Having really dark blue and light yellow allows for a huge range of greens inbetween, so they make more sense as primaries in that context. Red is used instead of magenta on normal colour wheels because they just look similar and red is more common in nature.

keep up the great work!

Amazing vid!

As a person who always wanted to study and know about colors . Thank you for the video it helps alot

This held my attention, which is very rare in todays world. I comment your efforts

This Video In The First Minute Teaches Me More About Colour Then School Has

BRO YOU ARE SO TALENTED YOU DESERVE MORE LIKES AND SUBS

Pretty good summary actually surprised this only has a thousand views after nearly a month

I loved your video! Make more about color and stuff! Plz & thx.

this is a super high quality video, algorithm worked!

This has taugh me more than school will ever do