A tertiary color is a color made by mixing either one primary color with one secondary color, or two secondary colors, in a given color space such as RGB (more modern) or RYB (traditional).
Tertiary colors have specific names, one set of names for the RGB color wheel and a different set of names and colors for the RYB color wheel. These names are shown below.
Brown and grey colors can be made by mixing complementary colors.
Read more about Tertiary Color: RGB or CMY Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Colors, Traditional Painting (RYB), Comparison of RGB and RYB Color Wheels
Famous quotes containing the words tertiary and/or color:
“Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.”
—Karl Kraus (1874–1936)
“Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs. When that has educated the frame to self-possession, to nimbleness, to grace, the steps of the dancing-master are better forgotten; so painting teaches me the splendor of color and the expression of form, and as I see many pictures and higher genius in the art, I see the boundless opulence of the pencil, the indifferency in which the artist stands free to choose out of the possible forms.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)