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Glossary term

primary colours of pigments

Definition

These colours cannot be made from mixing other colours. Primary colours are the source of other colours. The primary colours are red, blue and yellow. Mixing red and blue makes violet, mixing red and yellow makes orange, and mixing yellow and blue makes green.

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