Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Colours
George Barnard · 1807 - 1890
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All 5 colors in one file, ready to load as swatches in Adobe, Procreate, GIMP or Krita, or as CSS variables.
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Why is this public domain? George Barnard died in 1890; this work is in the public domain.
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A colour chart titled Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Colours by George Barnard, dated 1885, shows two figures built from interlocking coloured triangles and parallelograms. Figure 1 presents yellow as primitive with red, blue, orange, green and purple labelled around it, while Figure 2 presents green as secondary with citrine, olive, russet and other tertiary hues marked on the same grid.
