What color do you get when you mix blue and yellow?

What color do you get when you mix blue and yellow? You get green. This is the standard result when blue and yellow pigments, paints, crayons, or other subtractive colorants are combined. Blue and yellow are commonly taught as primary colors in traditional art, while green is considered a secondary color made by mixing them.

The exact shade depends on the materials and proportions. A larger amount of blue can produce a cool, blue-green shade, while more yellow creates a warmer yellow-green. The specific pigments also matter: some blue and yellow paints mix into a bright green, while others create a darker or slightly muddy olive tone.

A common mix-up comes from confusing paint with colored light. In light-based additive color mixing, red, green, and blue are the primary colors, and blue plus green light produces cyan. For ordinary classroom paint mixing, however, blue plus yellow gives green. Green is also the color associated with many natural leaves because chlorophyll absorbs much of the red and blue light reaching them.