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Most Tennis balls produced are a fluorescent yellow known as "optic yellow". In a 2018 Twitter poll, nearly 52% of 30,000 participants said a tennis ball is green, with only 42% saying it’s yellow. Six percent didn’t think it was either. Eliud Robles, Color Research & Development at Xerox measured the color and definitively stated, “We have been able to very quickly through science and color science understand and know that this color is mostly and mainly yellow with a very slight hue or hint of green.” The different cone cells of the eye register different but overlapping ranges of wavelengths of the light reflected by every object in the scene. From this information, the visual system attempts to determine the approximate composition of the illuminating light. This illumination is then discounted in order to obtain the object's "true color" or reflectance: the wavelengths of light the object reflects. This reflectance then largely determines the perceived color. Depending on how you perceive color, you might call it yellow, since it's mostly yellow; but if you're like me, the color yellow rests in a very small spectrum, and any deviation from it would change it's color from yellow to something else. Add a little red and yellow is now orange; light orange, but still orange. Add a little blue and yellow is now green; light green, but still green. Based on my perception of the world of color, I would describe "optic yellow" as green; a very light yellow shade of green, but green nonetheless. Achenar459 (talk) 16:56, 15 August 2020 (UTC)