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

  1. Which one looks the most like an in between of two primary^1^ colors?
  2. Which one looks the least like an in between of two primary^1^ 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.

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[โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not the answer you are looking for, just here to add that CMY are also primary colors. Is just a different palette, that is more suitable for print (with the addition of black [K]) than for painting . Both palettes (cmy and the taditional red,blue,yellow) work the same way (substractive color), in contrast to the rgb palette that is on your example (additive color).

Note that green is a secondary color in the traditional and cmy palettes , resulting from the mix of blue and yellow or cyan and yellow.

Cmy

Red, blue, yellow

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

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  • I guess for 1 its yellow as it feels the most like its own color. I feel like magenta feels like a shade of red and cyan as a shade of blue. I guess I feel 2 and 3 should be the same answer as I chose the most unique inbetween as the most like an inbetween but it is real close. I guess I will choose cyan as the magenta is closer to purple which I kinda feel is its own color but I don't feel strongly about it. I guess I would say (4) is yellow as it seems the lightest and (5) would be blue as it seems the darkest.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago

    Magenta
    Yellow
    Cyan
    Cyan
    Magenta

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 year 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.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 1 year ago

    I am colorblind, so no.

    Magenta

    Cyan

    Yellow

    Cyan

    Red and blue are tied in this image but in darker shades the answer is always red.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    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.

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  • [โ€“] [S] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 year ago
    1. Magenta
    2. Yellow
    3. Cyan
    4. Yellow
    5. Magenta
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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 year ago

    I don't, but I have cone-rod dystrophy.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago
    1. none
    2. yellow
    3. tie between magenta and cyan
    4. cyan
    5. none
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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago

    No I'm colorblind.

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