The 12 step color wheel

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This passage is an attempt to deliver some basic information on understanding various color design challenges. The basic principles of color theory and design are humble. The color wheel below will assist in grasping the knowledge of the basic principles of color. It also plays a role in teaching us different color balances and harmony.

Primary Color

The color wheel begins with 3 primary colors in an equilateral triangle. The next aspect is producing the secondary colors. These colors are positioned in triangles above the corresponding primary color combination. As the resulting secondary color absorbs even more waves from the white light than the first color, this system is known as the subtractive process.

Secondary Color
When a primary color is mixed with another, it produces a secondary color effect.

The colors formed are
Orange (red + yellow)
Green (yellow + blue)
Violet (blue + red)
These are also known as complementary colors.
The final step will be to create a ring around the freshly formed primary and secondary color form. Divided in 12 segments, the primary and secondary colors shall be repeated to their corresponding segment inside the adjoining ring. This leaves a blank space between every two colors. These blank segments are hosts to the tertiary colors.

Tertiary Color

This color is formed by mixing one primary and one secondary color. Three or more separate colors are mixed (one primary and one secondary – the combination of two primaries) and in the color wheel each tertiary color being created will be an equal combination of the two colors, left and right, surrounding an open segment.