Oyvoyvoyv said:
Wait, is the top one a yellow? Really? That seems incredibly odd to me.
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Well the selection on this site is only small so they may be combined.... there looks to be a little too much blue on the top 3 yellows.
However if you know your science, Red + Green light = yellow light.... but when you combine red and green paint it comes out what everyone would call brown....it's all very complex as there are 3 different mixing methods, actual light has the primaries Red, Green and Blue (all combined make white) but ink usually uses cyan (light blue) magenta (a reddish and slightly blue pink) and yellow.... but then the standard colour wheel will have the primaries Red, Blue and Yellow.
Brown in paint is really a dark yellow... because if you combine all three of Red, Yellow and Blue paint in equal measure you would get something more grey than brown (assuming the paint you used was the perfect Red, Blue and Yellow, which it rarely is)
And if you experiment a little, you can make black with just Red, Blue and Yellow (or Cyan, Magenta and Yellow... which is what printers can do when they run out of pre-mixed black)
So anyway... yeah, would be a very dark yellow hue
If you go into "more colours" on the drop down box you can see for yourself what the colour palatte looks like.
........Dark yellow (adding black)
........Desaturated Yellow (adding the colour opposite on the wheel, yellow is opposite magenta)
Other confusing things can be this:
........Dark Magenta (adding black to the pink of magenta)
........Purple (the hue between blue and magenta)
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I think an easier way to describe it is that for computer screens at least.... if you look at the colour table in "more colours" left and right in the box changes the hue (different values of Cyan, Magenta and Yellow) going up and down in the box is the saturation (on a colour wheel the centre would be grey, (desaturated) and the outside edge would be 100% saturated colour) then there is the light value (adding black/white)
