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One of the best tools for understanding color basics is the color wheel. It helps you see the relationships between individual colors in order to use them appropriately. The color wheel organizes pigment, which is used to produce color in illustration, art and printing. It includes twelve colors based on Isaac Newton's visible color spectrum, and is organized into three categories: primary colors, secondary colors and tertiary/intermediate colors. Understanding these relationships is essential to using color in your designs.
Primary Colors (red, yellow, blue) are referred to as primary because no other colors can be mixed to create them.
Secondary Colors (green, orange, violet) are formed from combining two primary colors.
Tertiary Colors (red-orange, red-violet, yellow-green, yellow-orange) are created when a primary and a secondary color are mixed.
- Pavilion