Secondary colors

Secondary colors Bad Practice
Secondary colors Best Practice

A secondary color is made by mixing two primary colors equally.

On screens, red and green make yellow, green and blue make cyan, and blue and red make magenta. In print it works the other way round: mixing two of cyan, magenta and yellow gives red, green or blue.

Notice the mirror: the primaries of one model are the secondaries of the other. That is because one model adds light and the other takes it away.