Inspire

A colour wheel is an illustrative organisation of hues around a circle that shows the relationship between primary colours, secondary colours and complementary colours.

Traditional colour wheels consist of 12 colour families:

PRIMARY COLOUR

RED, YELLOW, BLUE are regarded as free from white or black. They help us create the 12 colour families in their relative hues.

SECONDARY COLOUR Mixing any two of our primary colours – VIOLET, GREEN, ORANGE

TETIARY COLOUR BLUE+GREEN, BLUE+VIOLET, RED+VIOLET, RED+ORANGE, YELLOW+ORANGE, YELLOW+GREEN