LPiA-24 Nov. 18

[dukealien]

Primaries


What happened? Not so long ago
when three primary colors show
in any finger-painting set
red, yellow, blue are what you get

with secondaries pooled by pair
(green, orange, purple if you care)
but then things sharply changed
with how things were arranged.

For reasons not completely clear
before that last millennial year
usurping green grew primary
with yellow dropped from RGB.

Demoted, yellow soldiered on
with cyan and magenta drawn
from chemistry and fantasy
for printing inks’ dot-ecstasy.

I mourn but little for the pair
dispensed with - purple, orange, fair
at best.  But yellow still shines, bold
true primary, the shade of gold.