Color Wheel
Primary Colors + Secondary & Tertiary
In theory, the Primary Colors are the root of every other hue imaginable. Mix them with other Hues on the Basic Color Wheel to create 9 New Mixtures. You can then change their look by adding white, black or gray to turn these into
Tints, Shades or Tones.
Ink and light mix differently than pigment. To keep things simple, this page will focus on paint mixtures only.
In paint pigments, pure Yellow, pure Red, and pure Blue are theoretically the only hues that can't be created by mixing any other colors. Printer inks and web primaries are called Yellow, Magenta and Cyan.
SECONDARY COLORS
When you mix any 2 of the Pure Hues, you get 3 New "children".YELLOW + RED = ORANGE
RED + BLUE = VIOLET / PURPLE
BLUE + YELLOW = GREEN
TERTIARY COLORS
When you mix the Main Colors with their "children"you get 6 new colors.YELLOW + ORANGE = YELLOW-ORANGE
RED + ORANGE = RED-ORANGE
RED + VIOLET / PURPLE = RED-PURPLE
BLUE + VIOLET / PURPLE = BLUE-PURPLE
BLUE + GREEN = BLUE-GREEN
YELLOW + GREEN = YELLOW-GREEN
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