Paint mixing calculator

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Juicy Satsuma tells you how to mix your paints.

Red, Yellow and Blue are not the primary colours. Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow are the real primary colours. Go and have a look at a printer cartridge, if you don't beleive me!

Most printers also make use of Black, which helps with dark and desaturated colours. If you're mixing your own paint, you will also need White, unless you can pull off pointillism at 300dpi!

  1. Picker (top left): Mix your colours here. Start with the rainbow, then move left. Skin tones are between orange and red.
  2. Palette (top right): Store you colours here. The selected one updated. This is saved, so you can finish your work later.
  3. Demo (above these instructions): Imagine each circle as a blob of paint from above, replicate with real paint, then mix. Follow the numbers, if you prefer to squeeze out a slug