Book 13, Question 28
Why Can You Make Almost Any Color From Just Three Paints?
Painters can mix a huge range of colors from just a few paints. School sets often start with red, yellow, and blue, and printers use cyan, magenta, and yellow. Add white and black, and you can make almost any color!
More fun facts
- The primary colors of pigment are cyan, magenta and yellow.
- Mixing them can make many other colors.
- Printers use cyan, magenta, yellow and black ink to make full color pictures.
- This is called four-color printing.
- Markers labeled cyan, magenta or yellow are often not exactly those colors, just close.
Sources: Exploratorium, Exploratorium
Questions kids ask
Why do printers add black ink?
Black is part of the four-color process printers use to make full color images.