There are three main colours which make up all the colours we see these three colours are called primary colours: red, blue and yellow. When these colours are mixed in different combinations they make three new colours called secondary colours: red + blue = purple, red + yellow = orange, blue + yellow = green. Mixing primary and secondary colours create six new colour combinations which are tertiary colours.
All these colours are usually depicted in a circle called a colour wheel. it is composed of the primary colours with the secondary colours between the colours primary colours that make them. The tertiary colours are between the primary and secondary colours which make them. For example purple will be between red and blue on either side of the purple will be tertiary colours so between blue and purple will be blue-purple.
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Light is what determines the colours we see, light splits into seven colours Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet. Light hits an object and is reflected off the object and that is how we see different colours and due to this black and white aren't colours. Black is the absence of light and white is all the colours combined which are just the reflection of light. But when mixing colours adding black creates shades of the base colour, also called a hue, adding white to the hue creates tints and adding grey creates tones this is how we have many variations of all the basic hues.
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