what are primary colours
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Primary colors (or primary colours) are sets of colors that can be combined to make a useful range of colors. The primary colors are those which cannot be created by mixing other colors in a given color space. For subtractive combination of colors, as in mixing of pigments or dyes for printing, the primaries normally used are cyan, magenta, and yellow, though the set of red, yellow, blue is popular among artists.
Red, blue and yellow are the primary colors and are the base of every other color. They cannot be recreated by mixing other colors together. Secondary colors result when two primary colors are mixed together; they include orange, green and purple. Continue Reading.