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)
“‘Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,
Taught my benighted soul to understand
That there’s a God, that there’s a Saviour too:
Once I redemption neither sought nor knew.
Some view our sable race with scornful eye,
“Their color is a diabolic die.”
Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain,
May be refin’d, and join th’ angelic train.”
—Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753–1784)