Tertiary color | tertiary colors
Atertiarycolororintermediatecolorisacolormadebymixingfullsaturationofoneprimarycolorwithhalfsaturationofanotherprimarycolorandnoneofathirdprimarycolor,inagivencolorspace[1]suchasRGB[2],[1]CMYK[3](moremodern)orRYB[4][2](traditional).ColormadebymixingeitheroneprimarycolorwithonesecondarycolorPagefromANewPracticalTreatiseontheThreePrimitiveColoursAssumedasaPerfectSystemofRudimentaryInformationbyCharlesHayter[5].Tertiarycolorshavegeneralnames,onesetofnamesfortheRGBcolorwheelandadifferentsetforth...
A tertiary color or intermediate color is a color made by mixing full saturation of one primary color with half saturation of another primary color and none of a third primary color, in a given color space[1] such as RGB[2],[1] CMYK[3] (more modern) or RYB[4][2] (traditional).
Color made by mixing either one primary color with one secondary color
Page from A New Practical Treatise on the Three Primitive Colours Assumed as a Perfect System of Rudimentary Information by Charles Hayter[5].Tertiary colors have general names, one set of names for the RGB color wheel and a different set for the RYB color wheel. These names are shown below.
Another definition of tertiary color is provided by color theorists such as Moses Harris[3] and Josef Albers,[4] who suggest that tertiary colors are created by intermixing pairs of secondary colors[6]: orange-green, green-purple, purple-orange; or by intermixing complementary colors[7]. This approach to tertiary color relates spe...