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Which colors are primary?
And how should artists think about primaries?
However, for more than a century, both scientific understanding and practical experience has shown that cyan, magenta, and yellow are more efficient for subtractive mixing with pigments, producing clearer and a more saturated range of colors. When the aim is to achieve the widest possible gamut from a set of three starting colors, then cyan, magenta, and yellow for pigment, or red, green, and blue for light, are scientifically preferable. Using a limited gamut can help artists evoke certain moods, reinforce stylistic unity, or experiment with how a small set of colors can suggest the effects of light and atmosphere beyond literal representation.
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