In a subtractive system White = balanced reflection of all the hues present in the light spectrum. Black = balanced absorption of that spectrum

The Basic Color wheel consist the rainbow colors bended to look like circle/wheel. That way it shows easily how the colors relate to one another.

1672,1704 – Isaak Newton’s color wheel isn’t equally distributed but sized according to their wavelengths and widths in his observation of the spectrum. It was the first time where the colors where represented as a wheel starting and ending in the same color – not linear.

1772 – Color pyramid of Johann Heinrich Lambert, demonstrated for the first time the necessity of ordering colors in space and Meant to help textile merchants decide if they stocked all colors Intended for dyers and printers of the time to find inspiration for their mixtures.

1749 – 1832 – Wolfgang Von Goethe suggested that darkness is an active ingredient rather than the mere passive absence of light and black is a color itself and not the lac of color therefore needs to be in color wheel. he was also the first to talk about the effect of color on people, so we can say that he is father of color psychology. He talked about the associations with colors, and he wasn’t far from the truth as we know it today. He believed his triangle was a diagram of the human mind and he linked each color with certain emotions.

1810 – Philipp Otto Runge, another one to represent the color wheel in his own way, he was the first one to put the original hue in the edge of the wheel. Than represented a 3D sphere ordering all tints, shades and hues of colors.

Michel Eugène Chevreul, Designed a 72-part color-circle. 3 primaries (red, yellow, blue) 3 secondary mixtures of orange, green and violet + 6 further secondary mixtures.

1900 – Albert Henry Munsell, American painter, art teacher and inventor of the Munsell color system that specifies colors based on three color dimensions: Hue, Value, Chroma. Has served as the foundation for many other color order systems. 5 principal hues: Red, Yellow, Green, Blue and Purple and 5 intermediate hues halfway between adjacent principal hues. Each of these 10 steps is then broken into 10 sub-steps, so that 100 colors are given integer values.

ColorChecker System Ensures Photorealistic Color Reproduction.

Farnsworth-Munsell 100 Hue Test, Measures color vision, Evaluates and ranks color acuity. Used by governments and industry for over 40 years.

Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald, Developed a new theory of color defending the standardization of colors. Ostwald color system, a double cone model represents the three properties of color: hue, lightness and saturation is based upon an analysis of reflectance curves. Primaries hues: yellow, red, ultramarine blue, and sea green Secondary hues: leaf green, orange, purple and turquoise.

***printers don’t have primary colors and then mixing t get the rest they have other 3 colors (YMC).

Additive colors RGB (red, Green, Blue) – this is used to create different colors of light on stage – white light combination of different colors., Sum of red, green and blue.