Sentence examples for secondary colour from inspiring English sources
noun
Any of three colours derived from mixing two primary colours
- Orange (red + yellow), Green (yellow + blue), and Violet/Purple (blue + red) are secondary colours.
Tertiary colours are obtained by mixing a primary and a secondary colour together.
An "all through" flushing in the mix can be used for secondary colour effects.
The tone of your grey could lean towards any of the primaries you used, or may be closer to a secondary colour such as orange, green or violet.
Green was all kinds of bad things – a secondary colour, mixed from two primaries, and the colour of nature, of trees.
Two years later Abbe invented the apochromatic lens system for microscopes, which eliminates both the primary and the secondary colour distortion of light.
The Union Jack is remade in the orange, green and white of the Irish tricolour, and the gag rests squarely on the fact that orange is the secondary colour that stands in opposition to primary blue, and green is the secondary colour that stands in opposite to primary red.
Secondary colours - violet, orange and green - are obtained by mixing two primary colours.
This colour wheel has 12 hues - the three primary colours, the three secondary colours and the six tertiary colours.
Thus, it should be possible to produce black wherever all three of the secondary colours are present without affecting reproduction.
The chromatic trail of primary and secondary colours comes to a halt in a welter of metallics.
To get good secondary colours, like greens and purples, the primaries you use need to be as pure as possible.
