INTRODUCTION:

The way we see color makes it possible to mix two or more colors to make new colors. This website is about the two kinds of color mixing.

Colored light does not mix to produce the same colors as colorants such as paint, dyes, and inks.

This website also shows basic ways that these two color mixing systems are used.

The one type of color mixing is used when new colors are made by the combination of different colored lights. This kind of color mixing is used in stage lighting, where any color of lights may be chosen. Aside from this creative use of color lighting for live performance events, all colors can actually be displayed using only lights of three colors. These three colors are the basic colors used for television screens, video, and computer monitors. These colors are:

2. MIXING COLORS
OF PAINTS - INKS - DYES
Also called subtractive*
Color Mixing

The other side of color mixing is when color paints, inks, markers, and other coloring media are combined. Again in this case, many different colors can be mixed to make new colors. Yet it is possible to make almost all colors by mixing just three. These three colors are:

There is a connection between the first three colors: red, blue and green, and the second three colors: cyan, magenta and yellow. If any two colors of one group are mixed together in equal amounts, they will make a color from the other group.