Color Wheel

Who invented the Color Wheel?

The first color wheel was invented by Sir Isaac Newton. He split white sunlight into red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, and blue beams; then he joined the two ends of the color spectrum together to show the natural progression of colors.

What are the primary, secondary and Tertiary colors?

Think of the three Primaries as the Parents in the family of colors. In paint pigments, pure Yellow, pure Red, and pure Blue are the only hues that can't be created by mixing any other colors together. Secondary and Tertiary Colors. The three secondary colors (green, orange and purple) are created by mixing two primary colors. Another six tertiary colors are created by mixing primary and secondary colors.

What is the difference between warm and cold?

Warm colors are Reds, Oranges, and Yellows hues that remind us of sunshine, fire and warmth. Cool colors are those on the opposite half of the color wheel colors like Purples, Blues, and Greens that make us think of cool grass, water, or ice.

Harmonious Colors.

And finally, with all twelve of the colors present, we can start picking out Analogous Colors (or Adjacent Colors). Like it sounds, these are three colors that go well together simply because they’re next to each other on the color wheel. Sometimes they’re also referred to as Harmonious Colors, which makes sense because they’re almost like tones or steps of color, similar to musical notes in a single chord.