Color Mixer

What does the Color Mixer do?

Two colors. Everything in between.

Choose two colors and Qolorio builds the steps between them.

Each tile shows a different mix of Color A and Color B. A result marked 75 / 25, for example, contains 75% of Color A and 25% of Color B.

Use more tiles for smaller steps, or fewer tiles for a quicker look at how two colors meet.

Sometimes the most interesting color is somewhere in the middle.

Three ways to mix color

Color does not mix the same way on a screen, in print and on a painter’s palette. Qolorio lets you compare three different mixing models.

RGB – light on a screen

RGB combines red, green and blue light. It is the standard foundation for digital color on screens.

Mixing in RGB calculates intermediate screen colors between your two choices. It is useful for digital design, interface colors, gradients and exploring colors that will primarily live on a display.

CMY – a subtractive color concept

CMY uses cyan, magenta and yellow and demonstrates a subtractive approach to mixing color.

It can help you explore how subtractive mixing behaves differently from RGB, but it is not a professional print simulation. Real printed color also depends on inks, paper, printing conditions and color profiles.

RYB – the traditional artist model

RYB uses red, yellow and blue as its traditional primary colors.

Qolorio uses RYB as an educational digital approximation of paint-style color relationships. It can produce very different intermediate colors from RGB, which makes it useful for comparison and creative exploration.

RGB mixes light. CMY explores subtractive mixing. RYB follows a traditional artist’s model.

Same starting colors. Different journey.

Try a different relationship

Color B does not have to be chosen manually.

Choose Complementary to mix toward a color on the opposite side of the color wheel, or use Random when you want Qolorio to give the first color something unexpected to meet.

You can always switch back to Manual and choose both colors yourself.

Good combinations can be planned. Interesting ones are sometimes introduced.

What can you do with the results?

Every result is a real color you can copy or continue working with.

Use the mixer to:

• find intermediate colors between two palette colors;
• explore possible gradient steps;
• compare different mixing models;
• discover softer transitions;
• find a new color you would not have chosen directly.

If a result deserves a bigger role, open it in Color Studio and build from there.

A mix is not automatically a good palette color. Treat it as a possibility, then test it in context.