* Primary colours
* Secondary colours
* Tertiary colours
* In-between colour names
What is a primary colour?
- Red
- Yellow
- Blue
If you have a limited amount of money, you can buy red, yellow, and blue, and create a huge number of colours with them. If you don't buy black or white, you can mix the three to get a dark colour and thin the colours out with water for lighter colours (if you're using a white background).
Primary colours are often used for super heroes in the West, such as Superman. -- Not to say the East doesn't use them: Sailor Moon is a pretty good example. Primaries are flashy colours and can catch peoples' attention easily.
What is a secondary colour?
- Orange red + yellow
- Green yellow + blue
- Violet blue + red
A secondary colour is the colour created by two primary colours.
An example of characters that use secondary colours would be the Ninja Turtles. They're more harmonious due to the mix of two colours and not being as bright, generally.
What is a tertiary colour?
- Red-purple
- Red-orange
- Yellow-orange
- Yellow-green
- Blue-green Also: "Teal" or "turqoise"*
- Blue-purple Also: "Indigo"
A tertiary colour is a colour created by a primary colour and a secondary colour. Tertiary colours are also called "intermediate colours."
When naming tertiary colours, the primary colour always comes first, -- despite what Crayola may tell you!
An example would be Jasmine from Disney's Aladdin (her teal outfit).
What are the next colours?
Of course, you could go on into infinity mixing colours (I don't suggest trying it), so what are the other colours called?
- Quaternary (4th)
- Quinary (5th)
- Senary (6th)
- Septenary (7th)
- Octonary (8th)
- Nonary (9th)
- Denary (10th)
- Duodenary (12th)
- Vigenary (20th)
Basic Colour Theory:
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