2. Additive and Subtractive Colours

Colours are generally divided into two types: Additive colours and subtractive colours.

Here is a more detailed definition of these two types:

 

Additive Colours


Additive colours are produced by light itself. Without a source of light, no colour can form. "Additive" means that the adding of primary colours results in lig... 

Subtractive Colours


All the colours you can "touch" (i.e. all the colours of objects) are called subtractive colours. We perceive these colours, because the respective object absor...