How do you make the color blue?

You can’t make the color blue by mixing other colors, because it’s a primary color in traditional color theory like yellow and red.

You can create many blue shades and variations by mixing blue with other colors. Adding white creates light blues like pastel blue, adding black creates darker shades like navy, and mixing blue with small amounts of yellow or green produces blue-green tones such as teal or turquoise.

Use QuillBot’s free color palette generator to explore the color scheme of an image featuring a specific shade of blue.