When green and blue light are combined, they make cyan. Red and green light make yellow. And when all three primary colors of light are combined, we see white light.

Additive color mixing is creating a new color by a process that adds one set of wavelengths to another set of wavelengths. Additive color mixing is what happens when lights of different wavelengths are mixed. Subtractive color mixing occurs when we mix paints, dyes, or pigments.

What happens when you mix different colors of light? Unlike mixing paint, which will give you a darker color, when you mix all the colors of light, you get white light!

Value refers to the lightness or darkness of a color. A light color is a tint. For example, pink is a tint of red. A dark color is called a shade. Forest green is a shade of green.

White

Black

Neutral colors include black, white, gray, tans, and browns. They’re commonly combined with brighter accent colors but they can also be used on their own in designs. The meanings and impressions of neutral colors depend more so upon the colors around them.

In color theory, a tint is a mixture of a color with white, which increases lightness, while a shade is a mixture with black, which increases darkness. Meanwhile, the term tint can be generalized to refer to any lighter or darker variation of a color (e.g. tinted windows).

What is another word for colour?

a color name. HTML used to recognize 16 color names (“black”, “white”, “gray”, “silver”, “maroon”, “red”, “purple”, “fushsia”, “green”, “lime”, “olive”, “yellow”, “navy”, “blue”, “teal”, and “aqua”), but new browsers can recognize 147 CSS3 color names.