Quote Originally Posted by Tchoc View Post
While he's right and RGB is typically associated with light spectrum, I think it's actually using pigment spectrum logic just because of the terminology of darkening and lightening. So darkening would take you towards black and lightening would take you towards white.
But RGB are light spectrum primaries, not pigment primaries. If it were pigment primaries, the three bases would be like the colors in your printer cartridges.