We all know that all colors are made up of three
primary colors - red, blue and green - in various combinations.
Secondary colors are made up of mixing of these primary colors such as
cyan; yellow and purple while tertiary colors are made up of mixing the
secondary colors to the primary colors such as reddish orange and
yellowish green. Absence of all the three colors make up an absolute
black, which is almost non-existent, and the black we normally talk
about is actually a tint or shade of the actual color. Similarly all
these three colors mixed in equal parts would produce pure white light
such as sunlight. Colors that we are talking about are actually the
light particles reflected by a substance when the source absorbs the
rest of it. It is actually the tints, tones, values and shades of the
basic key hues that make our world so colorful to look at.
Let us see, the actual meaning of the words used above:


