The Color Kittens The Color Kittens The Color Kittens is a children's book by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen published as part of the Little Golden Books series in 1949. The story revolves around two kittens, "Hush" and "Brush," who attempt to create green paint through mixing their other paints. Their attempts lead to a variety of different hues—none of them green. The book's famous catch phrase is "Blue is blue, and red is red! They still need green!" Children's book author and illustrator Paul O. Zelinsky, for whom the book was a childhood favorite and inspiration, said that,
Shades of red to this purity–power tradeoff and their "red" may be less colorful and more orangish than the standard red of sRGB. This color is also the color called "red" in the X11 web colors, which were originally formulated in 1987. It is also called "color wheel red". It is at precisely zero (360) degrees on the HSV color wheel, also known as the RGB color wheel (). Its complementary color is cyan. "Pigment red" is the color red that is achieved by mixing process (printer's) magenta and process (printer's) yellow in equal proportions. This is the color red that is shown