Issac Newton was an extraordinary genius but, occasionally, even he was wrong. It is unfortunate that, in an attempt to tie color with the diatonic musical scale, he proclaimed that there were 7 "prismatic" colors. The phenomenon we know as color is comprised of the interaction of three components: a source of illumination, an object to be illuminated and an observer. Color is termed a psychophysical property because it cannot exist, by definition it cannot exist without an observer; color is an experiential quality. Current color science reveals white light contains all possible colors that may be produced from combinations of the additive primary colors: red, green and blue and that pigments subtract (from white source light) by differential absorption in a manner that reveals the subtractive primaries of Cyan, Magenta and Yellow, familiar to the printing industry. These technical aspects of color are enumerated here because the true nature of color has much to do with metaphysical understanding.

Simple, unbiased observation reveals that all hues of color may be recognized as a shade of one (or two) of the following fundamental colors: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue and Violet. The pure hue of each of these six colors may be depicted, by their spectral relationship to each other, to occupy equidistant positions from white light to form a circle of hue perception in which each the above six pure hues are located 60 degrees from each other, along a circumference of hue graduations.

Issac Newton was also responsible for presenting the visible spectrum as being linear but, in consideration of the psychophysical aspect of color, one may observe that the terminal colors Red and Violet appear spectrally between Orange and Blue.

Recognition of these fundamentals of color is key to understanding the significance of color in the language of the creator.