The Color Wheel www.designbiz.com By Denise Jackson
The Color Wheel is... The arrangement of colors around a circle showing relationships between the primary colors, secondary colors, and intermediate colors.
Primary Colors - Red, Blue, and Yellow Primary Colors - Red, Blue, and Yellow. Every other color is made up of some combination of these three.
Secondary Colors - Orange, Green, and Violet Secondary Colors - Orange, Green, and Violet. Secondary colors lie between the primary colors on the color wheel. These colors result from two primary colors being mixed together.
Yellow + red = orange yellow + blue = green red + blue = violet How to mix the Secondary colors: Yellow + red = orange yellow + blue = green red + blue = violet
Intermediate colors--also called Tertiary colors--result from one primary color and one secondary color being mixed together.
How to mix the Intermediate colors: Red + Orange = Red-Orange Red + Violet = Red-Violet Yellow + Orange = Yellow-Orange Yellow + Green = Yellow-Green Blue + Violet = Blue-Violet Blue + Green = Blue-Green
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