The HDTV color standard is called Rec.709, and it stipulates the exact red, green and blue primary colors, and yellow, cyan and magenta secondary colors, that every broadcast and television should ...

Thus it was that I found myself happily waffling along explaining how we computer nerds use additive primary colors of red, green, and blue (RBG) when mixing light to create our color displays. By ...

Instead of red, yellow, and blue, the printer’s color wheel relies on magenta, cyan, and yellow, which are the ink colors used to print images. This results in different secondary and tertiary ...

To see superyellow, look at blue. To see supercyan, look at red. You can view a gallery of the colors here. For example, to see superblue, stare at pure yellow for a minute or so, then immediately ...

Red-green and yellow-blue are the so-called "forbidden colors." Composed of pairs of hues whose light frequencies automatically cancel each other out in the human eye, they're supposed to be ...

There are similar colors available from the CMYK standard for British Racing Green, which denotes the mix of cyan, magenta, yellow and "key" (or black) that make up the hue (1.00, 0.00, 0.44, and ...

But the lo-fi-ness of it all is one of the reasons I love magenta: It’s not so secretly one of the cornerstones of color printing — the M in CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, black). When something ...