Assessment |
Biopsychology |
Comparative |
Cognitive |
Developmental |
Language |
Individual differences |
Personality |
Philosophy |
Social |
Methods |
Statistics |
Clinical |
Educational |
Industrial |
Professional items |
World psychology |
Cognitive Psychology: Attention · Decision making · Learning · Judgement · Memory · Motivation · Perception · Reasoning · Thinking - Cognitive processes Cognition - Outline Index
A secondary color is a color made by mixing two primary colors in a given color space. Examples include the following:
Additive secondaries[]
- Main article: Additive color
Light (RGB)[]
- Main article: RGB color model
| red | (●) | + | green | (●) | = | yellow | (●) | ||
| green | (●) | + | blue | (●) | = | cyan | (●) | ||
| blue | (●) | + | red | (●) | = | magenta | (●) | ||
Subtractive secondaries[]
- Main article: Subtractive color
Pigment (CMY)[]
- 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). In theory, solid overlapping layers of C, M, and Y ink produce black. In reality the outcome is dirty brown unless mixed exactly evenly so the black ink replaces the other three layers. See under color removal.
Traditional painting (RYB)[]
- Main article: RYB color model
| red | (●) | + | yellow | (●) | = | orange | (●) | ||
| yellow | (●) | + | blue | (●) | = | green | (●) | ||
| blue | (●) | + | red | (●) | = | violet | (●) | ||
RYB uses pigments, similar to CMY, which combine subtractively by absorbing light. Thus, combining colors using the RYB color system will result in a darker color.
See also[]
- Color theory
- List of colors
- Primary color
- Tertiary color
- Neutral color
Color topics | |
|---|---|
| Color perception |
Color vision, Color blindness, Visible spectrum, Color constancy, Color term, Color theory, Complementary color |
| Color space |
Hue, Lightness, Colorfulness, Additive color, Subtractive color, Primary color, Secondary color, Tertiary color |
| Basic colors |
White, Grey, Black, Red, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple, Orange, Brown, Pink |
| Related |
Pantone, Distinguishing blue from green in language, Grue and bleen |
| This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia (view authors). |