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Tertiary Colours
The six colours produced by mixing a primary with its adjacent secondary, named with a double-barrelled designation reflecting their dual parentage.
“Tertiaries are particularly valuable in analogous schemes where colours must flow naturally from one to the next.”
The six tertiaries are red-orange, yellow-orange, yellow-green, blue-green, blue-violet, and red-violet. Their double names reflect their origins. Tertiaries are particularly valuable in analogous schemes, where colours must flow naturally from one to the next, and in palettes seeking nuance and transitional complexity beyond the assertiveness of primaries and secondaries.
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