a public service announcement
I still don’t understand why none of my art teachers ever told us this.
Incorrect
There are three main color ‘models’ or ‘systems’. CMYK is one of them, but so is RGB AND the Pigment System (red, yellow and blue).
Pigment Color system is the basic one you are taught (Red, Yellow, Blue). It works with most paints because it’s based on pigments.
CMYK is a system mostly used for impression, in which the addition of Cyan, Magenta and Yellow make black. It’s called a substractive color method because the more you add, the darker it gets. The Black, or Key, is there because a combination of the three colors won’t always look entirely black, and because printing three colors over each other to make black would make the paper too wet and useless.
RGB is a system mostly used by your screens, and it’s an additive system. The more colors you add, the lighter the system becomes. The ‘main’ colors of this system are red, green and blue
All three are legitimate
Calm the fuck down.
There’s more but I don’t feel like covering them and they’re kind of not as relevant.
And if ANY of them could ever be considered more legitimate than the other three, it’d probably be RGB since that’s actually most directly based on the physiology of the human eye.
but again, NONE are more legitimate than the other