What are fake colors?

A fictitious color or imaginary color is a point in a color space that corresponds to combinations of cone cell responses in one eye that cannot be produced by the eye in normal circumstances seeing any possible light spectrum. No physical object can have an imaginary color.
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Is purple a fake color?

The colour purple does not exist in the real world. Apparently it's true. A rainbow of light from red to violet floods our surroundings, but there is no such thing as purple light. Purple only exists in our heads.
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Is there a fake color?

Magenta doesn't exist because it has no wavelength; there's no place for it on the spectrum. The only reason we see it is because our brain doesn't like having green (magenta's complement) between purple and red, so it substitutes a new thing.
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What color is not a real color?

If color is solely the way physics describes it, the visible spectrum of light waves, then black and white are outcasts and don't count as true, physical colors. Colors like white and pink are not present in the spectrum because they are the result of our eyes' mixing wavelengths of light.
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Is blue a fake color?

Part of the reason is that there isn't really a true blue colour or pigment in nature and both plants and animals have to perform tricks of the light to appear blue. For plants, blue is achieved by mixing naturally occurring pigments, very much as an artist would mix colours.
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Is purple a real color?

Purple is commonly known as the color produced when red and blue are mixed. This is true, but not holistically. Purple, not to be confused with violet, is actually a large range of colors represented by the different hues created when red, blue, or violet light mix.
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Is red a real color?

Red is the color at the long wavelength end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet. It has a dominant wavelength of approximately 625–740 nanometres.
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Is pink a fake color?

If colours were simply a naming scheme for wavelengths then pink is not one, because it is made up of more than one wavelength (it's actually a mix of red and purple light). If you took a laser and tuned it across the visible wavelengths, from infrared through to ultraviolet, you would not pass pink on the way.
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Is black a color yes or no?

Some consider white to be a color, because white light comprises all hues on the visible light spectrum. And many do consider black to be a color, because you combine other pigments to create it on paper. But in a technical sense, black and white are not colors, they're shades.
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Is GREY a color?

Grey (British English) or gray (American English) is an intermediate color between black and white. It is a neutral or achromatic color, meaning literally that it is "without color", because it can be composed of black and white. It is the color of a cloud-covered sky, of ash and of lead.
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What color can humans not see?

Red-green and yellow-blue are the so-called "forbidden colors." Composed of pairs of hues whose light frequencies automatically cancel each other out in the human eye, they're supposed to be impossible to see simultaneously.
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Is green a real color?

Green is the color between cyan and yellow on the visible spectrum. It is evoked by light which has a dominant wavelength of roughly 495–570 nm.
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Is Brown a real color?

In art, brown is a colour between red and yellow and has low saturation. Brown is a basic colour term added to languages after black, white, red, yellow, green, and blue. The word brown derives from Proto-Germanic brunaz and Old High German brun.
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Is orange a real color?

Orange is the colour between yellow and red on the spectrum of visible light. Human eyes perceive orange when observing light with a dominant wavelength between roughly 585 and 620 nanometres. In traditional colour theory, it is a secondary colour of pigments, produced by mixing yellow and red.
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Is yellow real?

Yellow is found between green and red on the spectrum of visible light. It is the color the human eye sees when it looks at light with a dominant wavelength between 570 and 590 nanometers. In color printing, yellow is one of the three subtractive primary colors of ink along with magenta and cyan.
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Is pink a girl color?

The short answer is no. Pastel colors for baby clothing—including blue and pink—were introduced in the mid-19th century, and they didn't become sex-specific colors until the 20th century. A couple of different aspects affected the ultimate designation of pink for girls.
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What color Is A Mirror?

A mirror might look silver because it's usually depicted that way in books or movies. However, it's actually the color of whatever is reflected onto it. A perfect mirror has specular reflection, meaning it reflects all light in a single direction equal to what it receives.
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Is gold a color?

Gold, also called golden, is a color. The web color gold is sometimes referred to as golden to distinguish it from the color metallic gold. The use of gold as a color term in traditional usage is more often applied to the color "metallic gold" (shown below).
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Is clear a color?

Clear is not a color at all. By definition, clear is the total absence of opacity. A clear material doesn't reflect any light back and simply let it pass through.
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Which colors are real?

Humans are trichromats, which means they possess three different types of colour receptors – for red, green and blue light – and are able to distinguish a wide range of colours, approximately 10 million in total. All colours that humans can see are composed of red, green and blue.
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Is rainbow pink yes or no?

You may have seen drawings or paintings containing pink in the rainbow, but this is all fictional. In this order, the rainbow contains red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. To put it simply, pink is not in the rainbow because violet and red are at opposite ends.
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What color is not in a rainbow?

Purple, magenta, and hot pink, as we know, don't occur in the rainbow from a prism because they can only be made as a combination of red and blue light. And those are on opposite sides of the rainbow, nowhere near overlapping. So there is no purple or hot pink in the rainbow from a prism.
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Is your blood blue?

It's red because of the red blood cells (hemoglobin). Blood does change color somewhat as oxygen is absorbed and replenished. But it doesn't change from red to blue. It changes from red to dark red.
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What colour is math?

Generally, yellow is the color of mathematics. A common reason for its popularity is because it is related to yellow. It is the color of a student's personality.
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What was the first color?

The team of researchers discovered bright pink pigment in rocks taken from deep beneath the Sahara in Africa. The pigment was dated at 1.1 billion years old, making it the oldest color on geological record.
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