Color Wheel
The color wheel is a circular diagram that organizes colors by their relationship to one another — primary, secondary, and tertiary.
What does color wheel mean in art?
The color wheel was first developed by Sir Isaac Newton in 1666. It arranges colors in a circle so that related colors are next to each other and contrasting colors are opposite. Artists use the color wheel to choose harmonious color palettes and understand how mixing colors produces new ones.
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Related Terms
Color Theory
Color theory is a set of principles used to understand how colors interact, combine, and affect emotions in art and design.
Complementary Colors
Complementary colors are pairs of colors that sit opposite each other on the color wheel, such as red and green or blue and orange.
Primary Colors
Primary colors are the three base colors — red, blue, and yellow — that cannot be made by mixing other colors together.