Which colors make green, when mixed together?

The two primary colours that you mix together to make green are yellow and blue.

What Is A Primary Colour?

There are three primary colours — red, yellow and blue — that cannot be made by mixing other colours.

Every other colour that we know is made up of a combination of these colours. Examples include:

• Blue + yellow = green
• Red + yellow = orange
• Blue + red = purple

What About The Other Colours?

The diagram below shows where other colours lie, and what they're made up of. For example, the pinkish colour to the left of red is mostly red with some blue in it.

Of course, this is a really basic diagram, as there are so many colours, and this only shows twelve. You can see roughly where the others would fit in, though!

How Is This Useful?

Primary colours and colour wheels come in particularly useful in art and design. Colour wheels are helpful in seeing which colours complement each other, which can be really handy if you're trying to come up with a colour-scheme for your bedroom!

From top to bottom, left to right, the little diagrams on the right-hand side of the image show:

1. Primary
2. Analogous
3. Hue
4. Secondary
5. Complimentary
6. Tint
7. Intermediate
8. Split-Complimentary
9. Shade