Miriam English wrote:
The red, blue, yellow that people have been using for centuries are now often called magenta, cyan, yellow. But many people still call them red, blue, yellow. They aren't wrong to do so, but it can make color stuff confusing.
Massively confusing, I would say. The difference between red and magenta, and between blue and cyan, isn't just a minor distinction -- it's vitally important to understanding how subtractive colour mixing works! Perhaps this bugs me more than others, because I'm the kind of person that likes to understand the reasons behind things rather than just memorising a bunch of rules. And the red-blue-yellow misinformation that I was fed by my parents and teachers actively interfered with my understanding in this area for a long time. (Astoundingly, one of the teachers at fault was my *physics* teacher -- he of all people should have been able to do a better job of explaining it! In the end it took an art teacher to set me thinking in the right direction.) -- Greg
