Ok, so.
I'm an uneducated Bastard that did not go to college, art school, or even graduate high school.
And I want to buy some PAINT! Specifically, professional grade screen-printing ink. I want to make things in color, so I'm gonna go ahead and buy this here kit of mixing colors, so I can make all of the colors myself:
Oh, hang on, what are those colors? Presumably they're primary pigments, CMYK, so that i can make every possible- oh. Oh no.
Red, Light blue, Yellow, Green(???), White, and Black.
Congratulations! You've made the color palette for fucking skyrim, not the real world. These colors are gonna look like you took a shit in the paint pot.
And this goes back to what I'd put a solid 90% of us into: School lied to you about colors from day fuckin' one. Ask any child you know; Hey, little Timmy, what are the primary colors? "Red, blue, yellow!" What makes them that? "You can mix them into any color!" NO THE FUCK YOU CAN'T, TIMMY. This is only true in theory! That's why they call it Color THEORY. Little Timmy here is gonna go mix red and blue into his favorite shade of Lavender only to find that it looks weird and gross for some reason, and he's gonna give up painting forever because he thinks he just isn't made for it. No, Timmy! It's not you, don't give up on your dreams!
Timmy grew up, and he still thinks RBY are all you need to make colors, and now he's selling other people ink and paint in kits like this too, because he never learned better.
And now here I am, some dickhead furry trying to print hot hot sexy candy gore on teeshirts for my friends, having to buy primary pigments separately from the kits they should be sold in because somebody in the US public education system said "It is a good idea to teach literal infants color theory before they can even read"????
SPEEDBALL! YOU'RE A HUGE NAME IN THE INK MARKET! YOU SHOULD KNOW BETTER! In fact, you clearly do, because you can buy SPECIFICALLY PURE CMYK PROCESS INK POTS FROM THEM. Do they come as a set? Hell the fuck no they don't. Do they at least ship together? >:C
Only one time have I ever searched online for "primary pigment mixing set" and found an actual set of primary pigments, it was by Holbein, and it was for their Japanese domestic market, not American. Americans are taught that their colors are stupid, and that pisses me off. Idk.

