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Recent Examples of tertiary color
There are six tertiary colors because of the mixing of the three primary colors with three secondary colors, and they are located between primary and secondary colors on the color wheel.
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Kate Reggev, Architectural Digest, 8 Oct. 2024
Secondary and tertiary colors can also be complementary, like blue-greens and red-purples.
—Kate Reggev, Architectural Digest, 8 Oct. 2024
What are the primary, secondary, and tertiary colors on a color wheel?
—Kate Reggev, Architectural Digest, 8 Oct. 2024
Pair with vibrant teals or calm navy for a colorful primary or tertiary color palette.
—Kaylei Fear, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Oct. 2023
The addition of a tertiary color (green) opened up some possibilities in terms of licensing.
—Joe Knowles, chicagotribune.com, 22 May 2018
Kate Reggev, Architectural Digest, 8 Oct. 2024
Secondary and tertiary colors can also be complementary, like blue-greens and red-purples.
—Kate Reggev, Architectural Digest, 8 Oct. 2024
What are the primary, secondary, and tertiary colors on a color wheel?
—Kate Reggev, Architectural Digest, 8 Oct. 2024
Pair with vibrant teals or calm navy for a colorful primary or tertiary color palette.
—Kaylei Fear, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Oct. 2023
The addition of a tertiary color (green) opened up some possibilities in terms of licensing.
—Joe Knowles, chicagotribune.com, 22 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tertiary color
Noun
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The secondary color might show as a thin slice in one eye or cover up to two-thirds of the iris in another.—
Lucy Notarantonio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 June 2025
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Colorado, a state whose shape is a simple rectangle, flipped from George W. Bush in 2004, while the secondary color of Davis’ choice of purple paint was created by combining two primary pigments — red and blue.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
16 June 2025
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That light source shapes up as a triple-laser flavor where each of the primary colors – red, green and blue – gets its own laser, with the beams merged into one before leaving the optics.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
5 June 2025
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Adding to the mystique is a painterly palette of primary colors.—
Daron James,
Los Angeles Times,
4 June 2025
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“Tertiary color.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tertiary%20color. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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