This is not BLUE (a lesson in color theory) 

color blind people: *confused screaming*

Magenta's not real, it's just a pigment of your imagination

I remember when I was young in art class a kid said his friend was able to make red by mixing paint, and nobody believed him, and the teacher straight-up said his friend lied to him. She told him it was fake.

I'm so grateful to my brain for lying to me about the existence of purple. I love purple.

“ purple is a lie “ * nervously glances at the purple stuffed giraffe sitting on my bed *

Me, feeling lied to my whole life: *Crying* Yellow: I will never hurt you

My art teacher ignored me after I told him that

Just wanted to add my two cents here, about that difference between additive and subtractive color that was mentioned. Basically, additive = light, subtractive = paint, clay, anything that isn't glowing. They're called that because with light, like on a computer screen, when you mix two colors together you're adding them. Green + Blue = Cyan, Green + Red = Yellow, Red + Blue = Magenta. This is how our eyes process light and color. But! When you're using paint, Green + Red is not yellow. It's some gross swampy grey-brown. This is because paint isn't sending light directly into your eyes, white light has to bounce off it first. Some wavelengths are absorbed, or subtracted, and others are reflected into your eyes. So paint is green when it absorbs everything except green, i.e. red and blue. Red paint absorbs blue and green. So now, when you mix these two paints, you're not mixing red and green light. You're mixing two paints, one that's absorbing red and blue, and one that's absorbing blue and green. So your new paint will absorb a lot of blue, and will technically be yellow, but it will also absorb a lot of red and green and become darker and a lot more desaturated. That's why Cyan/Magenta/Yellow are the primary colors for paints. Cyan is a mix between blue and green, so the paint version of cyan is only absorbing red. Cyan absorbs red, magenta absorbs green, yellow absorbs blue. Now, if you want to mix, say, blue, you mix cyan paint, which will absorb the red wavelengths, and magenta paint, which absorbs the green ones, leaving only the blue ones to bounce off and into your eyes. So, if you're using triadic and on the fence about whether to try CMY, just... remember that example earlier? About why red + green = greyish brown instead of yellow? Imagine how much incoherent shrieking you would do if people started insisting that yellow was not a primary color and could be made by mixing red and green. Just imagine it. Imagine them looking you dead in the eyes, pointing at that disgusting mess, and telling you it's yellow. Because that's exactly what the triadic color wheel does to cyan and magenta.

Alternative title: echo being an angry art teacher for almost 11 mins

I sent this to my friend who goes to art college and she said and I quote "I suffered thorough 8 months of this please no more"

At Home Depot I was talking with the paint guy about matching a color. He offered "I guess we could put more magnet in it." And it took me to like the fourth time before I realized a) what he was trying to say, and b) he wasn't trying to be funny.

“So what’s the difference between these two colors?” *Shows Cyan and Blue* That one person: *They’re the same color*

"Kids aren't being taught to know what cyan and magenta are" Kids who grew up dying sheep in minecraft: *visible confusion*

I want a shirt that says “the color wheel is a social construct”

The color of the sky is not cyan, the color of the sky is " Azure ", between cyan and blue like orange between red and yellow, but there are also shades of cyan .

I still can’t believe this video only has 1.1M views.. I watch this video all the time because it’s so educational and entertaining!!! Thank you for this!!!

Roses are red Violets are purple or blue- Just kidding colour is lie You've been deceived and I am too

Echo: "Purple doesn't exist" Me being named Violet: *sweats nervously*

This is interesting. I learned the word 青色 in japanese and it has always been translated as "blue". However, some people say it is a greenish-blue. When I looked it up on google, it was the color of the sky, which is "blue" in English... so, actually, 青色 is cyan and the Japanese have known it all this time ? and the translation as "blue" is due to the fact the english speakers call the cyan color "blue". Idk if it makes sense... but I just understood some things idk if it is even that related i just wanted to point it out

Me: damn, did you know magenta doesn't exist? Wife: no wonder, it's disgusting

5:37 "this is science" you mean cyance i'll show myself out

“Purple doesn’t exist” I feel like there’s an ace joke in there somewhere...

First year of my graphics art class, we were told what a CMYK printer was. Somehow this video did better explaining of color than my whole class

Thaaaaaank you! I've seen so many artists on RU-vid still spreading red and blue paints being primaries and it makes me so maaad after years of learning about color theory. I was told that lie too and for years as a teen I was so upset because I couldn't make purple. Then at 16 I bought magenta and cyan and my world changed. So much.... And if you look at a rainbow you can see a tiny aura of pink at the end of the indigo. I see it when it's a very defined rainbow :)

I accidentally made the "primary" colours mixing cyan, magenta and yellow in primary school, asked how it was possible if they're primary colours, and my teacher said "that's something for high school"

I've never seen someone so angry about colours but I'm here for it

"blue" is now "dark cyan" instead of cyan being light blue

I love your videos, you're informative and sarcastic which makes them so much fun to watch.

If you ever feel like you can’t achieve something just remember that magenta is a lie but still managed to be a primary colour, go get em sis

Wait- Im in a Art Specialized school and Yet my art teacher is telling me that red blue and yellow are the primary colors. Freaking liars

Thank you for setting this old attempted artist straight on the colors of the world and wavelengths. I am trying to get back to my art and drawings that I put down decades ago .

I don't know how many times I've watched this. Every time I see someone reference "primary colors" and show red/blue/yellow I pull out the link to this video ... and rewatch it myself, cos it's just so danged enjoyable!

So magenta is a primary color that also doesn't exist? Cool.

When you’re an artist and you don’t even know the damn primary colors

"Purple is a lie!" *looks at my several purple belongings* Me: WHAT ARE YOU?!

I totally enjoyed your post! Your passion and enthusiasm for your subject matter only reinforces how cool it is!

me: *confidently answers* C “if you picked C you were lied to as a child” me:🙊

ME: *is red/green colorblind* ECHO: "It's like saying that yellow and green are the same color." *shows the two on-screen* ME: ... *cries*

I watch this video now and then when I feel misunderstood. Sounds dumb but I nearly cried the first time I watched this video cause for once somebody put words to my thoughts about color in a way that I never really understood myself. You pulled all those wordless diagrams in my head together and both validated my thoughts and feelings, and explained all those thoughts in a way that made sense. ily

Im so glad i actually got taught this in highschool. My teacher taught us that magenta and cyan are better to mix colours with (while painting) because their colours are more vibrant and vivid. Thanks for explaining and proving the truth to us 😂❤️

As a color blind individual I feel vindicated that colors lie to everyone.

In Germany we actually learned Cyan, Magenta and Yellow as the primary colours

“Blue and Cyan are not the same color” Shout it louder Echo, I think the randoms didn’t hear you.

I wish this were at least 30 minutes longer. I can listen to you rant about colors as long as you want 😄

“Purple is a lie” Well I guess 80% of the stuff I own is a lie then

why do i feel like im being yelled at for not knowing what i didn’t know

I love this video and I return to it whenever I dye my own hair. I'd love to know what the best and purest cyan and magenta hair dyes are. Perhaps I need a small bottle of yellow in my arsenal too, though I usually have a yellow base after bleaching.

This is one of my all-time favourite video rants - I can watch it over and over again, a perfect mix of eloquence and fury.

Gosh, how I missed these Echo lessons. Examples: “How Coffee Works”, and “Communication Doesn’t Exist”

I knew the "real vs fake" primary colors but bruh I learned that magenta is a lie. My life has been flipped upside down.

Everything i was taught about colors was a lie!!!! THANK YOU FOR CORRECTING THIS... im addicted to your vids now, im trying to make myself a better artist, and you are a fantastic teacher.

The best video I’ve seen on this subject and I’ve watched many! Thank you Also, I love your dry humour.

But nobody will picture magenta when you say "purple." The purple in people's minds is 100% not magenta.

me: my favorite color is purple! Purple: *isn’t a real color* me: 😯

Having been schooled in the traditional red, blue, yellow colour theory this video blew my mind. It was very informative with excellent demonstrations and gives me a nice idea for a cover up tattoo

I love this and can't even remember how many times I've referred to it when people ask me how I've gotten a paint mix of a specific color and why I always ask hobby paint producer friends to PLEASE produce CMY paint colors. .

Me: watches this video Friend: the sky is so blue today Me, an intellectual: *laughs in cyan*

I think deep down we know that *most* of everything we're taught is wrong.

This video is great. But what is even more great is her very happy laptop in the background.

4:44 I agree with you on this blue and cyan are way different anything that is blue but with green in it is cyan and cyan is way lighter than blue. Blue is a really dark color

I took color theory in college and got a headache. Your 11 minute video could have saved me $1000.

Make a series about color theory called Cyance, I'll gag.

Im actually really thankfull for this video since ive been studying color theory and the visible light spectrum for maybe a year or so now and i actually learned alot of things about the primary colors

This video is flipping fascinating! FYI I’ve watched this video like 15 times already and I my mind is blown every freaking time! As a former art student actually does make perfect sense. You’re a freaking magician, my friend!

that moment when I see "magenta" as pink and not purple

Teacher: Ok class what are the 3 primary colors? 2nd grader who watched this video: *I am about to end this whole man's career*

actually purple is more real than blue. you can't find pigment that is blue in nature all the blue that exists in nature are physical structures that brakes the light to show blue but blue as a pigment in nature is not real while purple as a pigment exists in nature, sure it is rare but not as blue. (i mean you could find more purple flowers than blue) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KN7krvnm2uM.html and another thing if you don't explain what is the difference between subtractive and additive colours or at least leave a link to a video where it is explained this, how do you expect me or anyone to understand when you use this phrase during the video and how it is effecting on the difference between RYB and MYC? this is a lack of information (cuz, not all people have this information) hurts your main point cuz if I don't know what the difference and all I see is that one green is less vibrant than the other, it is still green so RBY is still primary colour and does not change anything in my perspective. if you do not want to get into details about a certain phrase than don't use it during the video, it makes your point unclear and if you need this phrase to explain your point you need to give that information. plus a major thing I think you should have mentioned at the begging of your video is that you are talking about coulour theory of pigments and not in physics cuz it is different. light acts differently than pigment you'll get different results using light or using pigment; if you mix RBY in light you'll get white while in pigment you get black or brown it is different. (p.s. although I am not sure of it, I think this could also be dependant on the medium of art you are using, cuz oil paints acts differently from watercolour or acrylics and as far as I know, they don't make cyan or magenta in oil paints and yet bob ross still made wonderful paintings)

Cyan and magenta are two of my favorite colors so I'm super glad our brains are like this.

People are arguing over MYC or RYB and yellow’s just there either way like 😐👌

“Add cyan and magenta to your colour vocabulary” Minecrafters rise up :)

I've been trying to understand color theory for so Loooong ... Thank you for taking your time to make this video. Made everything click. Bravo, amazingly done.

I've always known Cyan as a color, sometimes I would maybe call it a similar shade to "sky blue," as your paint called it, but I knew of its existence. Magenta, I might have called it a "darker pink," but purple I always found to be more synonymous to violet. Luckily, I knew about Magenta because that was the name of Blue's friend in Blue's Clues. Interesting how Blue (the dog) is a shade of Cyan...

I’m colourblind... This video is confusing EDIT: Thank you for the likes, most I've gotten, ever!😊

"Magenta is a primary color" "Magenta is a lie" AAAAHHHHHHHH

One of the best videos about color I've seen. Really eye opening.

Primary colors are dependent of the color space. In that case, you are right to point out that cyan and magenta are primary colors... in YCMK color space. The primary colors of RGB color space are red, green and blue, and the primary colors of RYB color space is red, yellow and blue. There's no wrong color space, there's no "wrong primary colors".

When she says „purple doesn’t exist“ and you’re colourblind and can’t see purple anyway

You're wrong too. I wish scientists would stop telling people that there are "red", "green", and "blue" cones. This is very far from the truth and is especially a problem when describing vision vs perception. The cones types are labeled S, M, and L (for short, medium, and long; refering to wavelength). [The actual names of the cones are beta, gamma, and rho; but those are harder to refer to as they aren't on most standard keyboards os I will be using S, M, and L] 'S' cones are most sensitive to violet light, 'M' cones to a yellow-green, and 'L' cones to yellow. 'L' cones also have a small peak in the violet-blue which is often not shown but is vital to understanding our brains interpretation of cyan through magenta (with magenta appearing as ultra-purple) Red is 'L' with little to no 'M'. Cyan is 'S' with 'L' and a little 'M' (this is possible because 'L' cones are have a small peak in the blue range). Purple (not magenta) is 'S' sensitivity alone. Magenta is the brain's interpretation of 'S' with 'L' with no 'M'. Magenta is more visibly on the purple side because of the brain seeing it as a natural extension of 'S'+'L'. Humans are one of the only mammals to see reds so clearly, but this has more to do with our brains' large visual cortex and less to do with our eyes. Red is just as much an interpretation as magenta, there just happens to be a visible wavelength associated with it. We would see near-UV as magenta if we could see those wavelengths with our cones. We can't because our lenses filter out most of the light in that range and so it falls below the threshold of photopic (cone based) vision. People who have had their lenses surgically replaced with artificial lenses that are more UV transparent do in fact see near UV light as a magenta or magenta haze.

What about Brown,silver,gold and black how does your eyes make those? Is it the same as the magenta?

Me: *likes magenta* Echo Gillette: “ Magenta is a *LIE* “

I want to see the hour long version of echo explaining colour theory

Me: *has purple as favorite color* Me: *watches this video* Me: *cries*

You heard it, if you can make green from blue and yellow you are a ‘freaking magician my friend’

This video absolutely blew my mind when I first watched it, even though I knew most of the theory behind what she was talking about. I still come back for re-watches every so often.

-mentions the imperial system *laughs in centimeters *

“Purple is so rare in nature” *looks at the purple morning glories in the garden, grapes on the counter*

thank you for this educational video. Your sarcasm is very refreshing and your passion for colors so understandable.

Whenever someone says that red blue and yellow are primary colours I feel physical pain As well as when someone says cyan is "light blue"

Me: this blew my mind Sister: no it cyan your mind

I am a future colorist literally studying color and being taught all wrong. This is gonna change how I formulate color

I used to think why Green and Purple would come out so muddy or dull whenever I made then from "primary" colors yellow red blue. Colors come out so much nicer with cyan magenta

Echo would it be possible to get your camera model used to film this. Asking to see how reliably the paint mixing can be used as reference or proof that the colors mixed are indeed more saturated.

Basically what I learned, is that we can always trust yellow.

Fact: magenta is a primary color Also fact: magenta does not exist S c i e n c e

You taught me better stuff in a 10 minute video than my art teacher in 4 years of middle school

This was honestly mind blowing. Great video!!!

To me, Magenta resembles much more a Pink than a Purple. I don't understand people calling magenta "purple"

“youre never gonna get ANYWHERE thinking that THIS is BLUE.” that is how im gonna insult people from now on

aw man i was so disappointed to go to your videos and see that this is the only one about color theory. I loved how well you explained this, it was easy to understand and entertaining at the same time. A shame to see you havent expanded on color theory for art, i find it so hard to understand. I feel like i understood everything you said but i have no clue what to use it for haha specially considering you mentioned something about substractive or additive so i feel more lost than before somehow, but i guess i know two news words i should use more.

I'm a graphic designer trained originally as/by an offset printer, and I love this so hard. I have had to teach basic color theory to SO MANY clients over the years. Blows Their Minds.