The basic colour wheel
![The basic colour wheel illustration: a doughnut-shaped colour wheel shows the 3 primary colours, with secondary colours sandwiched in-between. Complementary colours are then shown as those that sit opposite each other.](https://images.prismic.io/sketchplanations/39efd149-7dbf-4c28-bb10-6f420fb8b6e0_160866277111.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&w=3840&q=50)
With primary colours - red, blue and yellow - secondary colours, made by mixing the primaries - orange, purple and green - and complementary colours - from the opposites on the colour wheel - red and green, blue and orange, yellow and purple.
It’s fair to say there’s a lot more to colour than this basic wheel. I will try to get back to it.
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