Find perfect color combinations with our color wheel

A color wheel is a circular diagram that organizes colors based on their chromatic relationships. It serves as a fundamental tool for artists and designers to understand how colors relate to one another and create harmonious combinations.

The traditional color wheel typically consists of 12 colors, including three primary colors (red, yellow, blue), three secondary colors (orange, green, purple) created by mixing primary colors, and six tertiary colors formed by mixing primary and secondary colors. This structure helps in identifying complementary, analogous, triadic, and other color schemes that work well together in design projects.

On the RGB color wheel, there are 12 main colors. These colors are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, magenta, rose, and some shades in between like chartreuse green, spring green, cyan, and azure.

The color wheel has three main groups: primary, secondary, and tertiary colors.

The primary colors in the RGB color wheel are like the building blocks of light. When you mix them together, they create white light. These special colors are red, green, and blue.

Secondary colors are created by mixing two main colors together. There are three secondary colors: cyan, magenta, and yellow. In the RGB color system, mixing light shows that red and green make yellow, green and blue make cyan, and blue and red make magenta.

Tertiary colors are made by mixing a secondary color with a primary color. Six tertiary colors are present: blue, violet, orange, rose, spring green, and yellow.

The color wheel can be divided into warm and cool colors. Warmth or coolness of a color is called its color temperature. Color combinations on the wheel usually mix warm and cool colors in a balanced way. In color psychology, warm colors make us think of comfort and energy, while cool colors bring a feeling of calmness and being alone.

Warm colors are colors like red, orange, and yellow. They remind us of warmth, like the sun.

Cool colors like blue, green, and purple make us think of cool things like water.

Hue is what we call a color, like red or blue. It's the pure color without any white, black, or gray added to it.

Saturation means how bright and strong a color looks. High saturation colors are vibrant and intense, while low saturation colors are more muted and grayish.

Luminance is how bright or light a color looks. It determines whether a color appears light or dark, regardless of its hue or saturation.