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colour wheels are used for comparing different colours, to see what they look good with and which colours make each other pop! I think they are used for designing and painting.
from: Bob the butler/builder
The color wheel is used for comparing and contrasting the warm and cool colors or neutral. The warm are red yellow and orange. the neutral are brown black and white. The cool and blue green and purple
secondary colors like purple, orange, and green are mixed with primary colors to create tertiary colors. When naming a tertiary color, the primary color comes first. EX: Blue mixed with green would...
the primar colors mixed together in pairs make secondary colors. Then secondary with primary made tertiary colors.
primary: blue, red, yellow
secondary: blue+red=purple(violet) blue+yellow=green...