What creates secondary colors?

The creation of secondary colors is achieved by mixing two primary colors. In color theory, primary colors—such as red, blue, and yellow—cannot be created by mixing other colors and serve as the foundation for creating additional hues. When you combine two of these primary colors, you generate the three secondary colors: mixing red and blue results in purple, blue and yellow create green, and red and yellow produce orange.

Other options are based on different concepts in color mixing. For instance, mixing all primary colors typically leads to a neutral color, such as brown, rather than producing a secondary color. Mixing two tertiary colors is not a standard method to create any specific color category, and using monochromatic tones involves variations of a single color, rather than creating new colors through combinations. Thus, mixing two primary colors is the precise method for generating secondary colors.