Color Mixer

Mix colors in different proportions or find a recipe for a target shade.

All color tools

Estimates pigment mixing from screen colors. Actual paint depends on its pigments, binder and concentration.

Color 1
Cyan Cobalt Blue
50 parts
Color 2
Warm Yellow
50 parts
Your mixtureAstroturfPigment approximation
1#2156A550.0%2#F3D34950.0%
Find a recipe for a target

Find proportions using your ingredients. Some colors may be left at zero.

Green Hornet

Compare mixing methods

The same ingredients and amounts, mixed four ways.

Explore every ingredient pair

Each row blends two ingredients. Select a proportion to use it in your recipe.

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Saved work (0)

Save your first recipe above. Its colors and settings will be ready to reopen.

Saved on this device with its settings. Download a project to keep a backup or import it on another device.

How to mix colors and build a recipe
  1. Add two to six colors and set their amounts in parts. The color mixer converts the amounts into percentages, so a 2:1 recipe means twice as much of the first ingredient as the second.
  2. Choose a mixing method. Pigment approximates subtractive mixing; sRGB blends encoded screen-color channels; linear-light blends after converting those channels to linear light; OKLab blends in a perceptual color space. The same inputs can produce different results.
  3. Open Find a recipe for a target to look for proportions using your chosen ingredients. Compare the suggested result with the target before applying it. Some target colors cannot be closely reproduced from the available ingredients.
  4. Use Compare mixing methods to inspect the differences, or Explore every ingredient pair to see two-color mixtures. Copy or download the recipe, result, or pair chart.
  5. Save a named recipe to retain its ingredients, amounts, and method. Use Undo to revisit changes or download project JSON for an editable backup.

Mix equal parts #FF0000 and #0000FF: sRGB gives #800080, while linear-light gives approximately #BC00BC. Pigment mode uses a different approximation. Real paint also depends on the pigments, medium, and surface, so test a physical mixture before relying on a digital recipe.