What colors make answer
What Colors Make Green?
Yellow and blue make green in paint.
Quick answer for kids
Try one drop of yellow and one drop of blue. Stir them together to make green.
Parent and teacher note
Green is a secondary paint color in the traditional red-yellow-blue model. In light, green is a primary color. In printer ink, yellow and cyan make green.
What colors make green by color system
Paint Lab
Paint Mode: yellow plus blue makes green.
Light Mode
Light Mode: green is a primary light color, so it is not made by mixing other basic lights.
Printer Ink Mode
Printer Ink Mode: yellow plus cyan ink makes green.
Try it in Free Mix
Open the unified lab, switch systems, and compare the recipe without a score.
Open Free MixWorksheet activity
Mix yellow and blue. Add a little more yellow and compare the new green.
Frequently asked questions
What Colors Make Green?
Yellow and blue make green in paint.
What two colors make green?
Yellow and blue make green in paint. Add more yellow for yellow-green, or add more blue for a deeper green.
What colors make green in paint?
yellow plus blue makes green.
Do paint, light, and printer ink make green the same way?
green is a primary light color, so it is not made by mixing other basic lights. yellow plus cyan ink makes green.