Color Mixing Chart
A quick reference for what two colours make — and which colours to mix to get the shade you want. Every row links to a full guide with a live mixer and real paint matches.
The core paint mixes: red + yellow = orange, blue + yellow = green, red + blue = purple, and red + green = brown. Lightening with white makes tints (pink, peach); adding black makes shades (maroon, olive).
Want to try your own colours? Open the colour mixer to blend any colours in paint, light or print mode, set the parts of each, and get the result by name and in real paint.
Our color tools run on our own catalogue of 26,000+ real paint colors across 16 brands — Benjamin Moore, Sherwin-Williams, Behr, Dulux, RAL and more — with the color math (HSL and CIELAB matching) computed in-house, not scraped from summaries. Every color you pick maps to a real, buyable paint with its code, so what you see here you can actually take to the store. We review and update these tools and their data regularly.
Created by Denis Kataev, founder of DSGN.HOUSE — a software engineer and digital entrepreneur building professional color-design tools for everyone.
What is a colour mixing chart?+
A colour mixing chart shows which colours combine to make others — the secondary and tertiary colours you get from the primaries. The table below covers the most-searched mixes, each linking to a full guide and a live mixer.
What two colours make...?+
Pick the colour you want from the chart to see the exact mix. For example, blue + yellow make green, red + blue make purple, and red + green make brown.