What color do you get if you mix yellow and red?

Both yellow and red are primary colors on the RYB color wheel. They mix together to create orange, which is a secondary color. Mixing 50% yellow with 50% red should give you a bright, perfect orange.

It’s easy to mix paints to make new colors. You can use the primary colors (red, blue, and yellow) plus black and white to get all of the colors of the rainbow.

The Color Wheel shows the relationships between the colors.

The three primary colors are red, yellow, and blue; they are the only colors that cannot be made by mixing two other colors.

The three secondary colors are green, orange, and violet; they are each a mixture of two primary colors. Their hue is halfway between the two primary colors that were used to mix them. On the color wheel, the secondary colors are located between the colors they are made from.