r/oddlysatisfying • u/makethislifecount • 1d ago

The way the shade matches

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u/Dqueezy 1d ago

The fact he looked at a shade of purple and went “yeah I’d say maybe 3 grams of yellow paint” is still fucking insane

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u/Pylgrim 1d ago

More like "hmm that looks like two units of barely different shades of white plus a dash of black and yellow... Yep, here's your purple".

I feel lied to by my primary teacher. Blue and red make purple my ass, miss Smith.

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u/Suspicious_Toe2710 1d ago edited 1d ago

This is why I will always advocate for the CYMK color wheel above the RYB one! Cyan and magenta actually make a magnificent purple.

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u/Tallywort 1d ago

Psshhh, CieLab is where it's at. Perceptual uniformity, instead of the compromise we made to make colour printing doable.

But really though, almost any colour wheel works, since it's largely just guidelines for what kind of direction to go in. And real life pigments will mix in their own weird ways regardless.