The Color Wheel Guide

The illustratede color wheel, sometimes called a color circle, is a circular arrangement of colors organized by their chromatic relationship to one another. The primary colors are equidistant from each other on the wheel, and secondary and tertiary colors sit between them. In painting and other fine arts, there are three primary colors: red, blue, and yellow. They are called primary colors because they cannot be created by mixing any other colors. Primary colors form the basis for color theory or color mixing, as these three colors are the basic building blocks of color from which it is possible to mix most other colors.