What is Color?
{{use American English|date=February 2023}} [[File:Pigment Colours - Classification.jpg|thumb|Pigment Colors - Classification (Used in fine arts and drawings and mainly used for physical works)]] [[File:AdditiveColorMixing.svg|thumb|Additive color mixing {Used in computer screening and graphics and mostly used for digital purposes}]][[File:CMY ideal version.svg|thumb|217x217px|Subtractive color mixing {Used in computer screening and graphics and mostly used for digital purposes}]] '''Color''' (or '''colour''' in [[English in the Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth English]]; [[American and British English spelling differences|see spelling differences]]) is a [[Material property|property]] of [[light]]. The following are the most common color names: {{col-begin|width=55%}} {{Col-2}} * [[Red]] * [[Orange (color)|Orange]] * [[Yellow]] * [[Green]] * [[Cyan]] * [[Blue]] * [[Magenta]] * [[Purple]] * [[Lavender (color)|Lavender]] * [[Lilac_(color)|Lilac]] * [[White]] * [[Black]] * [[Grey]] * [[Silver (color)|Silver]] {{Col-2}} * [[Pink]] * [[Maroon]] * [[Brown]] * [[Beige]] * [[Tan]] * [[Peach (color)|Peach]] * [[Lime]] * [[Olive]] * [[Turquoise]] * [[Teal]] * [[Navy blue]] * [[Indigo]] * [[Violet]] {{Col-end}} [[Primary color]]s can be mixed to make other colors. Red, yellow, and blue are the three traditional primary colors. The primary colors for television screens and computer monitors are red, green and blue. Printers and paints use magenta, yellow, and cyan as their primary colors; they may also use black. Sometimes this set of colors is simply called red, yellow, and blue. People who can not see colors or have a distorted sense of color are called [[Color blindness|color-blind]]. Most color-blind people are [[male]]. Colors are sometimes added to [[food]]. [[Food coloring]] is used to color food, but some foods have natural colorings, like beta carotene. When something has no color, it is called transparent. An example is air. The science of color is sometimes called chromatics, colorimetry, or simply co