Primary Subtractive Colour For Light (Noun)
Meaning
Any of the three colors that give the primary colors for light after subtraction from white light; "the primary subtractive colors for light are magenta, cyan, and yellow".
Classification
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects.
Examples
- Magenta, cyan, and yellow are considered the primary subtractive colours for light when combining colours in certain displays and when painting in certain mediums.
- For inkjet printers to approximate the vibrancy of the original image, they use combinations of cyan, magenta, and yellow as the primary subtractive colours for light.
- In additive colour mixing, the primary colours of light are not the primary subtractive colours for light often referred to as cyan, yellow and magenta for materials or subtractive purposes.
- When breaking down pigments of cyan, yellow, and magenta to produce secondary and tertiary colours for subtractive purposes with light, white surfaces work in their favour.
- When screens have magenta, cyan and then yellow each taking up different areas of the sheet while overlapping one another during pigment application, any of these three colours are sometimes considered a primary subtractive colour for light.