the problem with the color wheel

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[aphoneiguess]

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

[AmeenDoesStuff]

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

[Great_Blue]

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.

[Themanofstupid]

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.

[GIRGHGH]

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.

[medvemapping]

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.

[_marshP]

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)

[Blaineworld]

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 #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).

[jaxon]

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.

[jerssh]

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

[burn.the.evidence]

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

[lankymaccrazyhair]

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

[leapfroggrr]

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.

[isomeme]

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.

[archer]

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!

[karl]

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

[actuallyazurite]

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

[VVYPUR_ONX]

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.

[Liboo]

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

[djangel]

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