Secondary color
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A secondary color is a color made by mixing two primary colors in a given color space. Examples include the following:
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Additive secondaries [edit]
Main article: Additive color
Light (RGB) [edit]
Main article: RGB color model
| red | (●) | + | green | (●) | = | yellow | (●) | ||
| green | (●) | + | blue | (●) | = | cyan | (●) | ||
| blue | (●) | + | red | (●) | = | magenta | (●) | ||
Subtractive secondaries [edit]
Main article: Subtractive color
Pigment (CMY) [edit]
Main article: CMYK color model
| cyan | (●) | + | magenta | (●) | = | blue | (●) | ||
| magenta | (●) | + | yellow | (●) | = | red | (●) | ||
| yellow | (●) | + | cyan | (●) | = | green | (●) | ||
This is often referred to as CMYK where K stands for Key (usually black).
Traditional painting (RYB) [edit]
Main article: RYB color model
RYB uses pigments, similar to CMY, which combine subtractively by absorbing light. Thus, combining colors using the RYB system will result in a darker color. The composition is red + yellow = orange, yellow + blue = green, and blue + red = purple.[1]
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- ^ Sometimes called violet, though technically purple is midway between blue and red, while violet in a tertiary color between blue and purple.
- ^ RGB approximations of RYB tertiary colors, using cubic interpolation
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