# S5 | perplexity/sonar-pro | run 1

## Prompt

Name three primary colors.

## Response

The three primary colors (in the traditional art/color-wheel sense) are **red, yellow, and blue**. These are commonly taught as the basic colors that cannot be made by mixing other colors and are used to mix most other hues in painting and elementary art education.[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_color)[2](https://study.com/academy/lesson/primary-color-secondary-colors-definition-names.html)

## Answer

The three primary colors are:

- **Red**  
- **Yellow**  
- **Blue**  

In traditional art and many educational materials, these three are defined as primary because they *cannot be created* by mixing other colors and serve as the starting point for creating secondary colors like orange, green, and purple.[2](https://study.com/academy/lesson/primary-color-secondary-colors-definition-names.html)[8](https://drawpaintacademy.com/primary-colors/)  

For completeness, in other contexts the set of “three primary colors” can be different:
- For **light/screens (RGB)**: red, green, blue.[5](https://www.britannica.com/science/primary-color)[10](http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/vision/pricol2.html)  
- For **printing (CMY)**: cyan, magenta, yellow.[5](https://www.britannica.com/science/primary-color)[4](https://science.howstuffworks.com/primary-colors.htm)  

Would you like a quick explanation of how mixing these three primary colors produces the secondary colors?
