The Classic Color Wheel (2 of 8)
You are probably very familiar with the color wheel, and could easily identify each of these six colors in their purest forms. Slip two colors between each of them, and you will have your “tertiary colors”.
At the line between green and yellow on the color wheel, there is a green that has extra yellow in it and a yellow that has some green in it. Remember that green is already made up of 50% yellow and 50% blue, so if you add more yellow, you end up with a green that looks like tender baby leaves with the sun shining through them, rather than mature deep green leaves in the shade.
The names for these colors can be kind of tricky. In the example above, the color described would be "yellow green". Think of the first half of the name as the adjective of the second half of the name. So "orange yellow" is yellow with a bit of orange (or, actually, a very small percentage of red), and "yellow orange" is orange with a touch more yellow.
At the line between green and yellow on the color wheel, there is a green that has extra yellow in it and a yellow that has some green in it. Remember that green is already made up of 50% yellow and 50% blue, so if you add more yellow, you end up with a green that looks like tender baby leaves with the sun shining through them, rather than mature deep green leaves in the shade.
The names for these colors can be kind of tricky. In the example above, the color described would be "yellow green". Think of the first half of the name as the adjective of the second half of the name. So "orange yellow" is yellow with a bit of orange (or, actually, a very small percentage of red), and "yellow orange" is orange with a touch more yellow.
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