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[[File:Pigment Colours - Classification.jpg|thumb|Pigment Colors - Classification (Used in fine arts and drawings and mainly used for physical works)]]
[[File:AdditiveColorMixing.svg|thumb|Additive color mixing {Used in computer screening and graphics and mostly used for digital purposes}]][[File:CMY ideal version.svg|thumb|217x217px|Subtractive color mixing {Used in computer screening and graphics and mostly used for digital purposes}]]

'''Color''' (or '''colour''' in [[English in the Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth English]]; [[American and British English spelling differences|see spelling differences]]) is a [[Material property|property]] of [[light]].

The following are the most common color names:
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* [[Red]]
* [[Orange (color)|Orange]]
* [[Yellow]]
* [[Green]]
* [[Cyan]]
* [[Blue]]
* [[Magenta]]
* [[Purple]]
* [[Lavender (color)|Lavender]]
* [[Lilac_(color)|Lilac]]
* [[White]]
* [[Black]]
* [[Grey]]
* [[Silver (color)|Silver]]
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* [[Pink]]
* [[Maroon]]
* [[Brown]]
* [[Beige]]
* [[Tan]]
* [[Peach (color)|Peach]]
* [[Lime]]
* [[Olive]]
* [[Turquoise]]
* [[Teal]]
* [[Navy blue]]
* [[Indigo]]
* [[Violet]]
* [[Chartreuse (color)|Chartreuse]]{{Col-end}}[[Olo]]

[[Primary color]]s can be mixed to make other colors. Red, yellow, and blue are the three traditional primary colors. The primary colors for television screens and computer monitors are red, green and blue. Printers and paints use magenta, yellow, and cyan as their primary colors; they may also use black. Sometimes this set of colors is simply called red, yellow, and blue.

People who can not see colors or have a distorted sense of color are called [[Color blindness|color-blind]]. Most color-blind people are [[male]]. 



Colors are sometimes added to [[food]]. [[Food coloring]] is used to color food, but some foods have natural colorings, like beta carotene.

When something has no color, it is called transparent. An example is air.

The science of color is sometimes called chromatics, colorimetry, or simply color science.

A [[translucent]] material is not the same as a colorless material because it can still have a color, such as [[stained glass]].

== Color Media ==
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File:Colouring pencils.jpg|Colouring pencils

File:Visible spectrum 390-710 nm linear perceptual.svg|The visible spectrum perceived from 390 to 710&nbsp;nm [[wavelength]]

File:Optical grey squares orange brown.svg|The upper disk and the lower disk have exactly the same objective color, and are in identical gray surroundings; based on context differences, humans perceive the squares as having different reflectances, and may interpret the colors as different color categories; see [[checker shadow illusion]]

File:Cones SMJ2 E.svg|Normalized typical human [[cone cell]] responses (''S'', ''M'', and ''L types'') to monochromatic spectral stimuli

File:Ventral-dorsal streams.svg|The visual [[two-streams hypothesis#Dorsal stream|dorsal stream]] (green) and [[ventral stream]] (purple) are shown; the ventral stream is responsible for color perception

File:AdditiveColor.svg|Additive color mixing: combining red and green yields yellow; combining all three primary colors together yields white

File:SubtractiveColor.svg|Subtractive color mixing: combining yellow and magenta yields red; combining all three primary colors together yields black

File:Peacock feathers closeup.jpg|The bright colors of Peacock feathers are caused by structural coloration

File:Rechteckspektrum_sRGB.svg|Reflectance spectrum of a color-optimal surface. There is no known material with these properties, they are, for what we know, only theoretical.

File:Visible gamut within CIEXYZ color space D65 whitepoint mesh.webm|Optimal color solid or Rösch–MacAdam color solid (with [[Illuminant D65|D65]] [[white point]]) plotted within [[CIE 1931 color space|CIE 1931 XYZ color space]]. Notice the central symmetry of the solid, and the two sharp edges, one with warm colors and the other one with cool colors.

File:Visible gamut within CIELUV color space D65 whitepoint mesh.webm|The visible gamut plotted within the CIELUV color space using D65 whitepoint. u and v are the horizontal axes; L is the vertical axis.
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== Related pages ==
* [[Color vision]]
* [[List of colors]]
== References ==
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