Tertiary color

Tertiary colors are colors made by mixing a primary color and a secondary color.

A tertiary color can be made with inks or paints by mixing a material of a primary color with a material of a secondary color.

A tertiary color can be shown on a computer screen when the pixels are lit at a brightness between those of both a primary color and a secondary color.

Another kind of tertiary color is made when the secondary color is complementary to the primary color. This means the primary color is not one of the colors used to make the secondary color itself. They are opposite colors.

The result of mixing complementary colors in an additive color model is white. The result in a subtractive color model is black.

List of tertiary colors

The colors shown on this list are from the RGB color model.

Color	Color Name	Mixed from Prim. Color	Mixed from Sec. Color
	Orange	Red	Yellow
	Chartreuse	Green	Yellow
	Spring green	Green	Cyan
	Azure	Blue	Cyan
	Violet	Blue	Magenta
	Rose	Red	Magenta

Tertiary Color Media

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  Page from A New Practical Treatise on the Three Primitive Colours Assumed as a Perfect System of Rudimentary Information by Charles Hayter.

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  Primary, secondary, and tertiary colors of the RGB (CMY) color wheel, with tertiary colors described under the modern definition.

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  Primary colors of the CMY color model: cyan, magenta, and yellow, mixed to form secondary colors red, green, and blue.

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  A RYB color wheel with tertiary colors described under the modern definition.