Color Mix Chart

Color mixer

Mix two colors

Choose two colors and slide the ratio. You get two answers at once: the mix as paint and the mix as light.

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As paint

#502F40. Shares are amounts of paint, mixed with a pigment model.

As light

#D248A6. The larger share shines at full and the other is dimmed to match the ratio.

Why the two answers differ

Paint works by absorbing light. Each paint soaks up part of the spectrum, and a mix soaks up what both do, so it ends up darker. Colored lights each add their own light, so where they overlap it gets brighter. That is why red and green make a dark brown in paint but yellow on a screen.

Nothing you pick here is sent anywhere or saved. The mixing runs in your browser. See how each swatch is worked out.