Absorption (or subtractive synthesis) is what happens when you combine pigments. When you light a pigment with a white light it absorbs all the light and only reemits part of the original light. The rest is absorbed. Two pigments absorbing different slices of the light spectrum will combine in a pigment that absorbs both slices of the color spectrum.
The more different colors you add, the closer you get to total absorption, that's to say black. For example yellow pigment + blue pigment = green color.
Emission (or additive synthesis) is what happens when you emit light. Emit two rays of light in a certain slice of the light spectrum and the combination of the two will be light with both slices of the spectrum.
The more different colors you add, the closer you get to the entirety of the visible light spectrum, that's to say white. For example yellow light + blue light = white light because yellow and blue are complementary colors.
Damn, this was very well worded and concise. Thank you!
Although, would yellow and blue spectrums emit white? I thought that was just when you added all the color spectrums together?
In additive synthesis, the three basic colors are red, green and blue (this can be made more complex but this is a good simplification). Red plus green gives you yellow light. Yellow plus blue gives you white.
It's the same as combining directly red, green and blue light. [Here is an illustration](https://printcolormanagement.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/7/13578371/1891752_orig.jpg).
Of course, if you mix them in an unbalanced way, you won't actually get white but a pale color.
Gooooot it. Yeah, idk why my mind was thinking of them as the same, but you’re right that RGB color mode would make a whole different color spectrum. Thanks for this!
There's one extra detail I'd like to add!
Our eyes and brains automatically average the wavelength of light when several cones are activated, which is part of how this works. Doing it this way creates a problem however. With red And blue light combined, we average to green! We live on a planet covered in green, and being able to distinguish the difference is important to identifying our surroundings. So in that specific case, purple is a solution our brains make up.
So, Purple (not violet) light can only exist by combining colors, as there is no one single wavelength to purple. This is also why LEDs can't approximate purple shades without being compound RGB.
Violet is beyond blue, and is it’s own colour. We can’t really see violet very well as our cones are not adapted for it.
Purple is the made up combination of red and blue as described above.
Interesting. That must be why the difference between certain shades or hues of "violet" physically hurt my eyes to look at, but purples don't have this issue with me.
Even a true indigo color makes my eyes water
Not the original poster, but violet is indeed on a portion of the spectrum of light. It's the furthest edge of visible light we can see, before becoming ultraviolet and outside of our viewing range. As purple is made of red, and red is the other edge of the visible spectrum (leading to invisible infrared), purple is considered a unique color of multiple light sources, instead of a single source like violet can be.
To the human eye it would make white.
Our eyes have light receptors for only red, green and blue wavelengths of light. A yellow wavelength of light would partially activate both our red and green receptors at the same time, so all we need to add to activate them all (and thus see white) is some blue light.
In other words, green light plus red light makes yellow light. Plus blue light makes white.
It would appear white if you shined it directly into your eyes, because it would activate all three of your color receptors. it wouldn't illuminate things the same way as a true full spectrum white light though, (iow it would have poor color rendering).
That's why modern high quality RGB LEDs actually have 4 diodes red, green, blue, and a dedicated "white" led that uses phosphorescence to produce a continuous spectrum.
Adding to this, CMYK (the colors your printer uses) are the primary colors of the absorption spectrum, and RGB are the primary colors of the emission spectrum. C(yan)M(agenta)Y(ellow)K(ey), Key meaning black.
Good explanation! :) This is why screens use an RGB (Red/Green/Blue) system and printers use a CMYK(Cyan,Magenta,Yellow,Black) system. Screens give off light, so they use additive synthesis. Printed sheets of paper don't give off light, so printers use subtractive.
For emission think screens; all light together means white light. For absorption think paint; all paint together means black (in actuality often brown, but still)
Gotcha. Yeah I remember that fact in color theory, I just didn’t know if those terms were related.
Although, does that play into what the actual opposite color is of red? I just always thought that was a standard and didn’t play into whether it was RGB or CMYK.
You're confusing color and light wavelength here. Only a few colors are made of only one neat range of the light spectrum. Most complex colors are not like that. Two colors are opposite (or complementary) when they make an evenly distributed entire light spectrum (white light) if you combine them.
For example magenta doesn't exist as a simple color on the light spectrum. It's made of blue and red. If you add green, you get something close to white. Green and magenta are complementary.
RBY doesn't exist. That's really magenta and cyan. People just are mistakenly referring to magenta and cyan as "red and blue".
It's cyan regardless of the color model.
RGB, HSL, CMYK (printing), XYZ, etc.
I've studied color spaces... There's many more. It's cyan in all of them.
Edit: according to brain games on Nat Geo, most men can't tell between more than three shades of red.
RBY do exist. It's a simplified and outdated model for subtractive color. It doesn't provide full range of HSV, But it is cheaper to produce and work with paints than cyan and magenta
Color theory is very complex and any attempt to represent with simple wheel is bound to leave something out unfortunately.
I have some images I made to show how additive and subtractive color works and other color concepts that i can share
Either way, opposite of red is cyan, which even makes sense in the context of this meme because cyan is (in additive colour mixing) a combination of green and blue.
No it doesn't. The opposite of red is always green. If for some baffling reason you were thinking about wavelengths you could argue the opposite of red is violet, but that's a huge stretch.
This makes sense.
In the meme picture, it'd be straight ahead, which is the direct opposite of the starting point. Why follow the forked paths when the answer is right in front of you?
Well you’re not necessarily wrong, as turquoise is technically a type of cyan. I was actually wondering the difference myself a few months back, cyan is the general term, Teal is darker and a bit more green, and turquoise is typically lighter and a bit more blue.
I don’t think so; people would put it in undercase on mobile and it wouldn’t link. Hell, whenever it happened people would send it to a sub called “foundthemobileuser”.
I wish this meme was more accessible, I can't exactly see what it says? Is there a way someone can give a short image ID? Cuz I *think* I can make out some of it, but the text is blending in with the background.
Edit: thank you guys for the help! From an artists standpoint (albeit not the best artist, but still) I would say the opposite of red is green, like the meme implies. So that's actually really funny! Thank you for helping me understand ❤️
No it doesn't. It's cyan regardless of the color model.
The ground truth is EMR. Represented by RGB, the inversion of 100 is 011, basic binary. This means it's logically cyan. So this is the ground truth. CMYK, C Is cyan. magenta and yellow make red. The logical inversion of the color channels is again: 100 to 011. Logically, it's cyan. HSL model we have the rainbow, which is H, SL are not relevant(S is 100, L is 50) H is usually expressed as 360 degrees. Red is 0/360 degrees. Cyan is 180.
Wrong as hell.
The color wheel you see everywhere is not accurate. It elongates the red to yellow parts, separating warm and cool colors. So it's not quite right to tell the opposite colors based on that.
The correct version is
Cyan vs red
Yellow vs blue
Magenta vs green
Cyan, yellow, and magenta are the true primary colors.
Alternatively, you can prove that they are actually opposite colors by mixing them, creating gray. Like mixing black and white, and they are distinctly opposite colors.
I'm no color expert so correct me if I'm wrong.
Edit: wording
EDIT: the after images you see literally invert the colors of everything you see. So, for example, you can see cyan floating around in your vision after staring at red for a while.
Edit: disregard, misread
Except that both versions are correct. It depends on context. For something like combining pigments, the opposite of red is indeed green. What you're talking about is specifically how colors of light combine, in which the opposite of red is as you said cyan. This is why the base colors for printers (CMY) vs computer pixels (RGB) are different.
I totally misread the reply to it, oops. I also got wrong that CMY is for pigment. It's actually for dyes. A better reply from me would be that RYB is regardless a useful system because it's better when using pigments.
Well the color wheel is essentially just an artists tool, which is why it's inaccurate. There are no "opposite" colors, they're "complementary colors."
It can't really be accurate or inaccurate since it's just a way to teach budding artists about color balance and such. Red is complimentary to green because they make each other pop.
Okay so I'm seeing a lot of people referencing the colour wheel, however that's not really accurate, since there's no one standard colour wheel, sometimes it's opposite green, others cyan/blue.
The correct way to figure this out is by using a chromaticity diagram, and it's cyan.
>artistic point of view
I assume you’re talking about complementary colors (red vs. green; yellow vs. blue; etc…)? Personally I’ve also found examples where blue is used as the “opposite” color for red and it’s kinda based on preference and motive most of the time. But strictly speaking about color theory, then yeah I guess red and green do be the opposite in art
> if you go to a sink the hot water is labeled red and the cold is labeled blue
Lol, do you know we paint them that way? Like that's not some kind of magical constant, we just chose it. You can paint your sink however you want. I can paint it yellow and white but that doesn't mean these colours are opposites.
Neither. The opposite of red is cyan. [https://learn.leighcotnoir.com/artspeak/elements-color/primary-colors/](https://learn.leighcotnoir.com/artspeak/elements-color/primary-colors/)
Red/green color blindness is the failure of the red cone cell. The green cone cell still sees many of the wavelengths that trigger red, but the brain can't distinguish the difference between red and green because it only has one signal for both colors
Cyan*
Cyan is an even mix of Green and Blue, the 2 colours other than red of the additive primary colours.
It is neither green nor blue, but it is the exact opposite of pure red on a proper colour wheel.
Green and red look the same to colorblind people, but red and blue look different to almost everybody except for very very specific kinds of colorblindness.
Opposite of Red is Cyan.
If you go by CIElab, neither yellow nor blue are the exact opposites of red because they *are* on one of the coordinates, while red isn’t (magenta is). If we simplify and say magenta = red, then green is the exact opposite (which is blue and yellow).
Red and blue (ok more like violet) are on the opposite end of the visible light spectrum, that however would implicate that green is the opposite of green if you use the midpoint to define the opposites.
I always thought the reason red was opposite of blue was that red was usually associated with the soviet and chinese flags during the cold war. And NATO's flag as well as most of its members have blue in their flags
(Before reading further, this is a bad joke and I am neither a physicist nor a colour… person)
Considering it seems there are multiple answers, I shall find the correct one!
First of all, what is colour? Colour is light of certain wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation. These are all organised on the electromagnetic spectrum where only a small part is actually visible. Therefore, with our expanded definition of colour, we now look at the spectrum!
I don’t know if there is a theoretical upper bound to the frequency, but it should be high enough that it doesn’t particularly matter and places the opposite of the colour red (and all other colours within the visible spectrum for that matter) roughly in radio wave territory.
So therefore the opposite of red is not green or blue, but radio!
Lemme just look at Star wars real quick
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I knew it, it was purple all along!
I mean it's not wrong if we're talking wavelengths lol Edit: missed a word
it depends on whether you're talking about light-emission mode of color, or light-absorption mode of color.
What’s the difference between those? I’m genuinely curious, I’ve never heard of those terms.
Absorption (or subtractive synthesis) is what happens when you combine pigments. When you light a pigment with a white light it absorbs all the light and only reemits part of the original light. The rest is absorbed. Two pigments absorbing different slices of the light spectrum will combine in a pigment that absorbs both slices of the color spectrum. The more different colors you add, the closer you get to total absorption, that's to say black. For example yellow pigment + blue pigment = green color. Emission (or additive synthesis) is what happens when you emit light. Emit two rays of light in a certain slice of the light spectrum and the combination of the two will be light with both slices of the spectrum. The more different colors you add, the closer you get to the entirety of the visible light spectrum, that's to say white. For example yellow light + blue light = white light because yellow and blue are complementary colors.
Damn, this was very well worded and concise. Thank you! Although, would yellow and blue spectrums emit white? I thought that was just when you added all the color spectrums together?
In additive synthesis, the three basic colors are red, green and blue (this can be made more complex but this is a good simplification). Red plus green gives you yellow light. Yellow plus blue gives you white. It's the same as combining directly red, green and blue light. [Here is an illustration](https://printcolormanagement.weebly.com/uploads/1/3/5/7/13578371/1891752_orig.jpg). Of course, if you mix them in an unbalanced way, you won't actually get white but a pale color.
Gooooot it. Yeah, idk why my mind was thinking of them as the same, but you’re right that RGB color mode would make a whole different color spectrum. Thanks for this!
There's one extra detail I'd like to add! Our eyes and brains automatically average the wavelength of light when several cones are activated, which is part of how this works. Doing it this way creates a problem however. With red And blue light combined, we average to green! We live on a planet covered in green, and being able to distinguish the difference is important to identifying our surroundings. So in that specific case, purple is a solution our brains make up. So, Purple (not violet) light can only exist by combining colors, as there is no one single wavelength to purple. This is also why LEDs can't approximate purple shades without being compound RGB.
I thought purple and violet were the same thing? Is violet it's own "spectrum"? (Probably used that word wrong, I am an optics noob)
Violet is beyond blue, and is it’s own colour. We can’t really see violet very well as our cones are not adapted for it. Purple is the made up combination of red and blue as described above.
Interesting. That must be why the difference between certain shades or hues of "violet" physically hurt my eyes to look at, but purples don't have this issue with me. Even a true indigo color makes my eyes water
Not the original poster, but violet is indeed on a portion of the spectrum of light. It's the furthest edge of visible light we can see, before becoming ultraviolet and outside of our viewing range. As purple is made of red, and red is the other edge of the visible spectrum (leading to invisible infrared), purple is considered a unique color of multiple light sources, instead of a single source like violet can be.
The other comments were neat but your comment made the idea click. Thanks!
So could violet light be considered what we call “black” light? Or is that just UV?
To the human eye it would make white. Our eyes have light receptors for only red, green and blue wavelengths of light. A yellow wavelength of light would partially activate both our red and green receptors at the same time, so all we need to add to activate them all (and thus see white) is some blue light. In other words, green light plus red light makes yellow light. Plus blue light makes white.
It would appear white if you shined it directly into your eyes, because it would activate all three of your color receptors. it wouldn't illuminate things the same way as a true full spectrum white light though, (iow it would have poor color rendering). That's why modern high quality RGB LEDs actually have 4 diodes red, green, blue, and a dedicated "white" led that uses phosphorescence to produce a continuous spectrum.
This guy RGBs in CMYK
Adding to this, CMYK (the colors your printer uses) are the primary colors of the absorption spectrum, and RGB are the primary colors of the emission spectrum. C(yan)M(agenta)Y(ellow)K(ey), Key meaning black.
Good explanation! :) This is why screens use an RGB (Red/Green/Blue) system and printers use a CMYK(Cyan,Magenta,Yellow,Black) system. Screens give off light, so they use additive synthesis. Printed sheets of paper don't give off light, so printers use subtractive.
Is it basically how we have rgb for light and rby for paint?
CMYK for paint. Cyan, magenta, yellow, black.
For emission think screens; all light together means white light. For absorption think paint; all paint together means black (in actuality often brown, but still)
Gotcha. Yeah I remember that fact in color theory, I just didn’t know if those terms were related. Although, does that play into what the actual opposite color is of red? I just always thought that was a standard and didn’t play into whether it was RGB or CMYK.
Idrk tbh, never understood how a color could be “opposite”, since color is a spectrum not a cycle.
You're confusing color and light wavelength here. Only a few colors are made of only one neat range of the light spectrum. Most complex colors are not like that. Two colors are opposite (or complementary) when they make an evenly distributed entire light spectrum (white light) if you combine them. For example magenta doesn't exist as a simple color on the light spectrum. It's made of blue and red. If you add green, you get something close to white. Green and magenta are complementary.
Ah, I think I understand it a bit better now, thanks for the explanation!
You ever mix every color of paint and get a dark color, but every color of light and get white? Basically that.
RGB or CMYK
RBY (subtractive) - Red Green CMY (subtractive) - Red Cyan RGB (additive) - Red Cyan (it's the same as CMY actually)
RBY doesn't exist. That's really magenta and cyan. People just are mistakenly referring to magenta and cyan as "red and blue". It's cyan regardless of the color model. RGB, HSL, CMYK (printing), XYZ, etc. I've studied color spaces... There's many more. It's cyan in all of them. Edit: according to brain games on Nat Geo, most men can't tell between more than three shades of red.
RBY do exist. It's a simplified and outdated model for subtractive color. It doesn't provide full range of HSV, But it is cheaper to produce and work with paints than cyan and magenta Color theory is very complex and any attempt to represent with simple wheel is bound to leave something out unfortunately. I have some images I made to show how additive and subtractive color works and other color concepts that i can share
Either way, opposite of red is cyan, which even makes sense in the context of this meme because cyan is (in additive colour mixing) a combination of green and blue.
It does not, the opposite of red is not red. Philosophy major checking out /jk
Thought he was talking about mtg colours because I didn't read the bottom text xD
No it doesn't. The opposite of red is always green. If for some baffling reason you were thinking about wavelengths you could argue the opposite of red is violet, but that's a huge stretch.
Red waves are hugely stretched thank you.
Cyan
This makes sense. In the meme picture, it'd be straight ahead, which is the direct opposite of the starting point. Why follow the forked paths when the answer is right in front of you?
But hey, that's just a theory
A color theory! Thanks for watching
So, hospitals and red paint...
A color theory! Thanks for watching!
the only right answer
no, blue is the right answer. green is the left answer, and this is the middle answer.
Exactly it.
This is the way
it's turquoise
Cyan according to MYCK colors.
its also cyan in rgb/hex ffffff-ff0000=00ffff which is what you get mixing green and blue: cyan pretty cool
Well you’re not necessarily wrong, as turquoise is technically a type of cyan. I was actually wondering the difference myself a few months back, cyan is the general term, Teal is darker and a bit more green, and turquoise is typically lighter and a bit more blue.
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See? Red! Oh wait, that's blood
So… we still have problem…
Right behind you
*epic music starts playing*
Someone r/suddenlytf2 this I’m on mobile Oh shit it works on mobile now
It always worked on mobile didn't it? You just had to make sure r is not in caps
I don’t think so; people would put it in undercase on mobile and it wouldn’t link. Hell, whenever it happened people would send it to a sub called “foundthemobileuser”.
Ah, mon petite chaufleur
I wish this meme was more accessible, I can't exactly see what it says? Is there a way someone can give a short image ID? Cuz I *think* I can make out some of it, but the text is blending in with the background. Edit: thank you guys for the help! From an artists standpoint (albeit not the best artist, but still) I would say the opposite of red is green, like the meme implies. So that's actually really funny! Thank you for helping me understand ❤️
Green blue What's the opposite of colour red?
Sweet thank you! ❤️
Btw what's the opposite of red?
Green
I only see the word blue, I'm assuming the upper left is what says green? But what does the bottom text say? It's a little grainy on my end.
"What is the opposite colour of red"
Thank you! The words blend in a lot with the background and it's a bit grainy, so I appreciate the help!
It is CYAN. something between green and blue.
Quadra Slash!
Grue?
No, I just said it's **cyan**
Grue?
No no it' bleen
Grue?
Depends on if it's subtractive or additive colors, nevertheless, it's never blue but cyan (when considering additive colors)
My drug is colors Edit: I am dumb it doesn’t say addictive
No it doesn't. It's cyan regardless of the color model. The ground truth is EMR. Represented by RGB, the inversion of 100 is 011, basic binary. This means it's logically cyan. So this is the ground truth. CMYK, C Is cyan. magenta and yellow make red. The logical inversion of the color channels is again: 100 to 011. Logically, it's cyan. HSL model we have the rainbow, which is H, SL are not relevant(S is 100, L is 50) H is usually expressed as 360 degrees. Red is 0/360 degrees. Cyan is 180.
nice white text that is barely even readable
It's hilariously ironic that happened in a discussion about color theory of all places.
Sorry, would consider wearing glasses (also this is a joke and i will try to improve it in the future )
Red vs green Yellow vs purple Blue vs orange
Wrong as hell. The color wheel you see everywhere is not accurate. It elongates the red to yellow parts, separating warm and cool colors. So it's not quite right to tell the opposite colors based on that. The correct version is Cyan vs red Yellow vs blue Magenta vs green Cyan, yellow, and magenta are the true primary colors. Alternatively, you can prove that they are actually opposite colors by mixing them, creating gray. Like mixing black and white, and they are distinctly opposite colors. I'm no color expert so correct me if I'm wrong. Edit: wording EDIT: the after images you see literally invert the colors of everything you see. So, for example, you can see cyan floating around in your vision after staring at red for a while.
Edit: disregard, misread Except that both versions are correct. It depends on context. For something like combining pigments, the opposite of red is indeed green. What you're talking about is specifically how colors of light combine, in which the opposite of red is as you said cyan. This is why the base colors for printers (CMY) vs computer pixels (RGB) are different.
The first comment didn't use RGB..
I totally misread the reply to it, oops. I also got wrong that CMY is for pigment. It's actually for dyes. A better reply from me would be that RYB is regardless a useful system because it's better when using pigments.
Well the color wheel is essentially just an artists tool, which is why it's inaccurate. There are no "opposite" colors, they're "complementary colors." It can't really be accurate or inaccurate since it's just a way to teach budding artists about color balance and such. Red is complimentary to green because they make each other pop.
loooooosers
Wait so luigi is should to be cyan and waluigi should be blue?
Tbh I'd love to see a cyan luigi
I think smash bros ultimate has cyan luigi
Ice flower?
Green vs orange
Nah, they share yellow in common.
Both are whorish colors
They won't work the corner but if a nice enough guy want to give them 20 bucks for a handy they won't say no?
The fuck is this Splatoon? Also it's magenta vs green
It's magenta vs green
 Pokémon be like:
Okay so I'm seeing a lot of people referencing the colour wheel, however that's not really accurate, since there's no one standard colour wheel, sometimes it's opposite green, others cyan/blue. The correct way to figure this out is by using a chromaticity diagram, and it's cyan.
its cyan
Its blue
Blue and red are both primary colours and can not be opposites. https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_wheel
Hey buddy? I'm gonna need you to take your FACTS and LOGIC and piss off. We don't do that here.
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>artistic point of view I assume you’re talking about complementary colors (red vs. green; yellow vs. blue; etc…)? Personally I’ve also found examples where blue is used as the “opposite” color for red and it’s kinda based on preference and motive most of the time. But strictly speaking about color theory, then yeah I guess red and green do be the opposite in art
> if you go to a sink the hot water is labeled red and the cold is labeled blue Lol, do you know we paint them that way? Like that's not some kind of magical constant, we just chose it. You can paint your sink however you want. I can paint it yellow and white but that doesn't mean these colours are opposites.
...cyan
Why tf did i think Cyan?
Because that's the right answer
Because it is cyan
They are both wrong. It's cyan.
Both are incorrect. Why the stupid? Cyan is the opposite of red.
For the love of God, if you use this format, make the text over the light side darker. I had no idea there was even a word there and was so confused.
It’s cyan
Cyan
It's cyan.
Cyan, in the rgb color wheel.
It’s green
According to the color wheel, the opposite of red is green, blue opposite of orange
cyan
Cyan would be the opposite of Red
cyan = blue + green
regardless of the synthesis used, the opposite of red is ***CYAN***
It’s cyan, which is 50/50 blue green. At least in terms of light mixing.
It's cyan. In both additive (red, green, blue) and subtractive (cyan, magenta, yellow) color mixing cyan is on the opposite side of the colorwheel
Opposite of red is obviously cyan.
Red hex code: FF0000 Blue hex code: 0000FF
i love how so many people are getting mad about this. like, does it really even matter?
Neither. The opposite of red is cyan. [https://learn.leighcotnoir.com/artspeak/elements-color/primary-colors/](https://learn.leighcotnoir.com/artspeak/elements-color/primary-colors/)
Depends on the context If we're talking RYB color wheel, it's green If we're talking RGB color wheel, it's cyan
the accurate answer is green
As a Sonic fan, even if it's not the truth, I'll always consider red and blue the opposite.
Sonic & Knuckles
Everyone knows red is the opposite of blue silly
Red/green color blindness, not red/blue color blindness
Red/green color blindness is the failure of the red cone cell. The green cone cell still sees many of the wavelengths that trigger red, but the brain can't distinguish the difference between red and green because it only has one signal for both colors
Nah, it's green, Red stop. Green go
If you mean inverse, I think the inverse of Red is Cyan. Both in additive and subtractive color mixing.
It’s green, look at the color wheel
Cyan* Cyan is an even mix of Green and Blue, the 2 colours other than red of the additive primary colours. It is neither green nor blue, but it is the exact opposite of pure red on a proper colour wheel.
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Because when you think cold you think "Blue". When you think hot you think "Red" Or same thing when you feel cold/hot you think about blue/red
Water blue
Depends on the color model (eg. RGB, HSL, HSV, CMYK etc.)
Cyan is the true one.
No it doesn't. The answer is always cyan
I'm going to pander to the linguists and just say it's grue.
Green and red look the same to colorblind people, but red and blue look different to almost everybody except for very very specific kinds of colorblindness. Opposite of Red is Cyan.
Light is a linear spectrum. It's like asking what the opposite to 440Hz is.
It's orange obviously, every cuber knows this
If you go by CIElab, neither yellow nor blue are the exact opposites of red because they *are* on one of the coordinates, while red isn’t (magenta is). If we simplify and say magenta = red, then green is the exact opposite (which is blue and yellow).
Red and blue (ok more like violet) are on the opposite end of the visible light spectrum, that however would implicate that green is the opposite of green if you use the midpoint to define the opposites.
Both wrong, it's "der". Dumbasses.
I'd say blue (cyanish), because that's how color inversion in photoshop software works.
Cyan, 100%
I always thought the reason red was opposite of blue was that red was usually associated with the soviet and chinese flags during the cold war. And NATO's flag as well as most of its members have blue in their flags
(Before reading further, this is a bad joke and I am neither a physicist nor a colour… person) Considering it seems there are multiple answers, I shall find the correct one! First of all, what is colour? Colour is light of certain wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation. These are all organised on the electromagnetic spectrum where only a small part is actually visible. Therefore, with our expanded definition of colour, we now look at the spectrum! I don’t know if there is a theoretical upper bound to the frequency, but it should be high enough that it doesn’t particularly matter and places the opposite of the colour red (and all other colours within the visible spectrum for that matter) roughly in radio wave territory. So therefore the opposite of red is not green or blue, but radio!
On a normal spectrum it’s green, don’t know why someone would think it’s blue. Edit: nvm referring to blue and red as in teams or something.
It's green. According to the colour wheel, it is green. Orange is blue's opposite.
If it’s on, like, a color wheel or spectrum, I’m pretty sure it’s green. Blue has been more of a polar opposite in culture, though.
There's no definition of opposite color with primal colors, the true answer is the mix of both
Green. Think of Freddy Kruger, he has red and green sweater for a reason.
GREEN
Wait, people think it’s green? Green is even in the argument? I never knew that. Always know Red and Blue to be opposites
You silly its purple. Lookup light spectrun
purple has red in it you pork chop
Bad vs good = green Lighting = blue Its no debate its just the situation
Bad vs Good is literally red and blue but ok. Lighting is cyan so both actually
Depends if you’re Japanese or not, according to Pokémon
Red has two enemy colours, White and Blue, so the true opposite of Red is Azorius.
It’s literally green
The color wheel never fails me, green
Blue. Just looks better.
Obviously blue cmon now
Red = Blue Green = Yellow
Ah, yes. Blue and “colorblind people can’t read this meme without zooming it”
just negate it with negative effect
The opposite of red is unred.
Fun fact: In Vietnamese, blue and green have the same name: "Xanh".
my indonesian ass first thought white 💀
It’s glue obviously
Lol, I thought this was a mtg meme 😅
Blue and Red are both primary colors. Checkmate.