The primary colours are red, yellow and blue. They are the colours which cannot be created by mixing other colours together. They are the colours that are combined to make a useful range of other colours.
The secondary colours are colour combinations created by the equal mixture of two primary colours. On the colour wheel, secondary colours are located between primary colours. According to the traditional colour wheel, red and yellow make orange, red and blue make purple, and blue and yellow make green.
The combination of primary and secondary colours is known as tertiary or intermediate colours, due to their compound nature. Blue-green, blue-purple, red-orange, red-purple, yellow-orange and yellow-green are colour combinations you can make from colour mixing. On a colour wheel, tertiary colours are between primary and secondary colours.
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