• Add Some Color to Your Life
    Awake!—1990 | October 8

    • What this means is that the various colors are not separate entities. They are interrelated, and an understanding of this relationship is invaluable in learning how to match colors. A helpful tool in this regard is the color wheel, or circle. One version of it is shown on page 16. The colors of the rainbow are arranged in a circle. The primary colors​—red, yellow, and blue—​are evenly spaced around the wheel.a By mixing these colors in varying proportions, all the other colors, or hues, on the wheel can be produced.

      When a color on the wheel is mixed with an equal amount of the color at the opposite side of the wheel, the result is black or dark gray. If unequal amounts are mixed, the results are the darker or neutralized colors. Because they contain more colors, these neutralized colors can harmonize with many hues. Neutralized red, for example, contains not only red and green but also yellow and blue, which are the parents of green.

  • Add Some Color to Your Life
    Awake!—1990 | October 8

    • a Red, yellow, and blue are the so-called primary colors in paint. Pigments, or colorants, of these colors can be mixed to generate other colors. On the other hand, red, green, and blue are called the primary colors in light. When lights of these colors are projected on a screen, they blend to form other colors.