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Comparing “red” to “magenta” might be less obvious since they are next to each other. Figure 2: The classic color wheel divided into Cool and Warm halves.Ĭompare “yellow” to “blue” and it’s easy to see yellow is warm and blue is cool. Regardless, the general idea is the warm colors are Red, Orange and Yellow and the cool colors are Green, Blue and Magenta (Figure 2). The line location varies based upon the reasoning of the theorist. A dividing line splits the wheel into warm and cool. Most theories start with the classic six point color wheel (three primary colors and three secondary colors). The concept of warm and cool colors has been written about for hundreds of years. That's because this pure pigment leans away from Orange and mixes harmoniously with the cool pure Blue.Figure 1: A “split primary” color wheel with warm and cool primary colors forming 4 color quadrants.

In this example, if you want to mix a rich Purple instead, use a cool pure Red such as Quinacridone Red. This result is only great if you actually want a rich Brown. In this case it's pure Blue + pure Orangey/Red. Brown is the neutralized result we get from mixing Complementary colors. In our example above, Cadmium Red is a warm pure hue, leaning toward Orange. Blue and Orange are Complementary Colors. As a result, there are many different pure Yellow, Red and Blue pigment paints available.

Paint is manufactured with organic, mineral and chemical pigments. They are unmixed pigments that can't be created by mixing other colors. To understand why, we need to look at paint pigments. A Primary Yellow, Red or Blue paint color usually refers to a paint that contains only one pigment. For instance, if you mix Cadmium Red + Ultramarine Blue, you'll likely be sadly disappointed. If you were expecting a deep rich Violet (Purple), the resulting Brown will be a total surprise. The problem is paint pigment never works like that in real life. However, as I wrote in a previous Color Wheel post, color is not an exact science. So in other words, you could conceivably mix gazillions of colors with only three pure Primar y pigments of Yellow, Red and Blue. Of course that's what they teach us in school.