Submitted by Campbell_MG t3_yz5pls in dataisbeautiful
TheThiefMaster t1_iwypv5q wrote
Reply to comment by Oscar_Cunningham in [OC] Inspired by movie barcodes, I made some emotional barcodes for books by Campbell_MG
For what it's worth - it's two different blues!
The positive primary (light) is "royal blue", and the negative primary (paint, ink) is "sky" blue.
Children's paint sets regularly get this wrong...
Oscar_Cunningham t1_iwyubg4 wrote
Yeah, and then you get a really murky green and purple.
Lightning_Lance t1_ix2u5qz wrote
Modern paints use magenta for "red" and Cyan for "blue". So it's literally just inverted RGB, using the secondary colors instead of the primary (of course, language is malleable and so they just call those the primary colors in paint... But it's the secondary colors of RGB).
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