The Color Wheel and How It Works. A color wheel has 12 sections, each one representing a color. There are three primary colors, three secondary colors, and six tertiary colors.

On a color wheel, the tertiary colors are found between the primary and secondary colors. Yellow-orange, red-orange, red-purple, blue-purple, blue-green, and yellow-green are examples of tertiary ...

On color wheels, hues are the primary and secondary colors found at the outermost ring of the diagram. Saturation, or chroma, refers to the level of intensity or brilliance of a color.