Printers may think that they understand colour and unlike most painters, they at least do have a real set of 3 primaries in Yellow, Cyan & Magenta that do more or less follow a sound theory. Yellow is the only one of the "traditional" primaries that cannot be mixed with paint. This is quite wrong as any modern printer knows, and who, using today's pigments, can mix up Red from Magenta and Yellow, and Blue from Magenta and Cyan. They could not be mixed, therefore they had to be elemental. This incorrect notion goes back hundreds of years and its basis is the fact that at the time, with the pigments available, those 3 colours could not be made by mixing other colours. Most painters are labouring under the delusion that the 3 primary colours are Red, Yellow & Blue.
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They understand how to get the colour that they want on their canvas, or at least, something that will do. Most painters think that they understand colour. It should be on the walls of all primary schools the world over! Make it so! The Martian Colour Wheel is an essential part of the education of all people with colour vision. It will also give you a richness of understanding about colour that you never had as you learn to name colours accurately for the first time. It will give you a way to talk accurately about colour that you have never had before. With the Martian Colour Wheel you have a vocabulary of colour that will cover almost everything you can see. The Martian Colour Wheel also NAMES every colour with a simple, recognisable, real world example! You may think that this is no big deal, but I assure you: It is! I judge these to be less important than the brighter, more saturated colours and so, for the time being I have left them out.
There ARE a few exceptions, namely: very dark shades and mid to dark very unsaturated colours. Obviously, since there are an infinity of colours in any given gamut you can't cover ALL of them with 120, however, you can rest assured that there WILL be a colour on the Martian Wheel that is close to any colour you can find on a computer screen. The result is 120 colours that cover most the gamut available on a computer screen and most colours that you can see in the real world. There are also 2 dark shades for each hue and two light tints.
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It also keeps the full brightness of all the hue exemplars in order to match the richness of colour available on our RGB screens. The Martian Colour Wheel is based on the HSV cylinder but it uses 24 hues that have been corrected for brightness, hue distortion around the primaries and for the Abney Effect. Fourthly: The names of most of the colours are either missing, incorrect or so clumsy as be useless.Thirdly: Most wheels only give the primary shade of that hue, no darker shades and no lighter tints.either that or you are confronted with a continuum of hues. Secondly: There are not enough hues in most wheels.Just because there are legions of oil painters and water-colourists the world over prepared to swear blue that the "traditional" wheel is the only true wheel, does NOT make them right. Just ask any physicist or qualified printer. For a start: The "traditional" colour wheel is wrong."Colour has been well known for thousands of years!" you say. "Surely this ought to be enough!" you say. There have been numerous colour wheels over the ages, from Isaac Newton's in 1704 to Goethe's in 1810 to Wilhelm Betzold's in 1874 to modern "Traditional", Printers' CYMK and Physicists' RGB wheels. The Martian 24 Hue Colour Wheel (click for full resolution)