In Franco-Belgian Comics, there are many heroic duos combining a red-dressed hero and blue-dressed sidekick. I think of Alix and Enak, Spirou & Fantasio, Jo and Zette and even Asterix and Obelix (if you take into account the color of Asterix's pants). Would they fit in this trope? I do not think they fit in Chromatic Arrangement, because the third color is missing.
Red, yellow, and blue are NOT the primary colors! Although they are so ingrained in society as such that little can be done about it. I don't know how to fight this trope, but it annoys me.
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When mixing paints, they are. Red + green in watercolors won't get you yellow. Most people learn about art in year R while not learning about the colors of light until secondary school.
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
I disagree. I could never make a decent purple with red and blue paints. I think the primary colors are closer to the colors used in printers - magenta, cyan, and yellow. I know the primary light colors are different, but that's not what I'm talking about.
If you couldn't make a 'decent' purple, it's because you were using the wrong shades of red and blue. If you get a pale red (close to magenta) and a pale blue (close to cyan) you will get a nice, bright, unmistakable purple. This, coupled with cost, is WHY magenta and cyan are used (rather than any other reddish and blueish colours, which would have similar but perhaps less pleasing effects.)
RYB does have and objective reality beneath the level of cones and rods though. *sighs*. Arguing from the surface level of cones and rods that you've somehow measured reality... is like having a cat with retractable claws and arguing from that therefore your cat doesn't have claws at all. but don't expect an extended argument fro me I'm just grumpy.
Maybe they are used because red and blue are national colo(u)rs of lot of countries?
Would a "Red, Green, Blue" protaognist count as a Primary Color Champion?
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