Colors from A to Z

The practice of artists clearly showed that very many colors and shades can be obtained by mixing a small amount of paints. The desire of natural philosophers to find "primarily" in total in the world, analyzing the phenomena of nature, to decompose "on the elements", led to the allocation of "main colors", which did not immediately chose red, green and blue.

Different spectral composition of light can give the same response on visual receptors (color metamery effect).

It should be borne in mind that the names of the colors are subjective and arbitrary, and may differ in different cultures. None of the color names presented here cannot adequately and fully characterize the color sample.

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