Blank Color Wheel

Print a blank colour wheel to colour in, or a colour wheel worksheet with an answer key. Start from one of our 18 designs: a 12-colour wheel with or without names, a 6-part primary and secondary wheel, a 3-part primary wheel, a 24-segment wheel, a worksheet with P / S / T letters and key boxes, rings for tints, shades and tones, and a harmony worksheet for complementary, analogous, split-complementary, triadic and both tetradic schemes, each marked at its exact angle. Set the size in inches or centimetres on US Letter or A4, add an answer-key page in RYB colours and download a PDF, 300 DPI PNG or SVG. Nothing is uploaded.

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How to make and print a blank colour wheel

1. Pick a design: blank wheel, worksheet, tint / shade rings or a harmony worksheet.
2. Choose 3, 6, 12 or 24 segments, the rings and the labels (names, P / S / T letters or none).
3. For a harmony worksheet, choose the harmony and the starting colour, or put all six on one page.
4. Set the wheel size, paper and line width; tick Add an answer-key page if you want one.
5. Download the PDF and print at 100% (Actual size), then colour it in with paint, pencils or markers.

What you can use it for

• Art lessons on primary, secondary and tertiary colours
• Colour theory homework and tests (with an answer key)
• Paint practice: mixing the wheel yourself
• Tint, tone and shade exercises
• Choosing colour schemes for a painting, room or design
• Colouring pages and classroom displays

The 18 colour wheel designs

Design	Segments	Rings	Labels	Harmony	Fill
Blank 12-colour wheel with names	12	Pure colour	Colour names	–	Blank
Blank 12-colour wheel, no labels	12	Pure colour	None	–	Blank
Blank 6-colour wheel (primary and secondary)	6	Pure colour	Colour names	–	Blank
Primary colours: 3-part wheel	3	Pure colour	Colour names	–	Blank
Blank 24-segment wheel	24	Pure colour	None	–	Blank
Colour wheel worksheet: P / S / T letters and key	12	Pure colour	P / S / T	–	Blank + answer key
Answer key: 12-colour RYB wheel	12	Pure colour	Colour names	–	Coloured
Tints ring worksheet (pure + tint)	12	Pure + tint	Colour names	–	Blank + answer key
Shades ring worksheet (pure + shade)	12	Pure + shade	Colour names	–	Blank + answer key
Tint, tone and shade wheel (4 rings)	12	Pure, tint, tone, shade	Colour names	–	Blank + answer key
Harmony worksheet: complementary	12	Pure colour	Colour names	Complementary	Blank + answer key
Harmony worksheet: analogous	12	Pure colour	Colour names	Analogous	Blank + answer key
Harmony worksheet: split-complementary	12	Pure colour	Colour names	Split-complementary	Blank + answer key
Harmony worksheet: triadic	12	Pure colour	Colour names	Triadic	Blank + answer key
Harmony worksheet: tetradic (square)	12	Pure colour	Colour names	Tetradic (square)	Blank + answer key
Harmony worksheet: tetradic (rectangle)	12	Pure colour	Colour names	Tetradic (rectangle)	Blank + answer key
All six harmonies on one page	12	Pure colour	P / S / T	All six	Blank + answer key
Answer key: 24-segment wheel with tints and shades	24	Pure, tint, tone, shade	Colour names	–	Coloured

All are our own drawings. Every design is a starting point: change the segments, rings, labels, harmony, size and line width. Our tests check that every segment is exactly 360° divided by the number of segments, that the rings are all the same width and that every harmony mark sits on the centre of its segment at the stated angle.

Segments and colours

Segments	Each segment	Colours, clockwise from the top
3	120°	Yellow, Red, Blue
6	60°	Yellow, Orange, Red, Violet, Blue, Green
12	30°	Yellow, Yellow-orange, Orange, Red-orange, Red, Red-violet, Violet, Blue-violet, Blue, Blue-green, Green, Yellow-green
24	15°	Yellow, Yellow-orange, Orange, Red-orange, Red, Red-violet, Violet, Blue-violet, Blue, Blue-green, Green, Yellow-green (named segments; the 12 in between are blends of their neighbours)

Type	Colour	Answer-key hex	Made from	Angle from yellow
Primary	Yellow	#FFFF00	(primary)	0°
Tertiary	Yellow-orange	#FFBF00	Yellow + orange	30°
Secondary	Orange	#FF8000	Yellow + red	60°
Tertiary	Red-orange	#FF4000	Red + orange	90°
Primary	Red	#FF0000	(primary)	120°
Tertiary	Red-violet	#BF0040	Red + violet	150°
Secondary	Violet	#800080	Red + blue	180°
Tertiary	Blue-violet	#55308C	Blue + violet	210°
Primary	Blue	#2A5F99	(primary)	240°
Tertiary	Blue-green	#158466	Blue + green	270°
Secondary	Green	#00A833	Blue + yellow	300°
Tertiary	Yellow-green	#80D41A	Yellow + green	330°

The hex values are conventional RYB screen colours (the Gossett and Chen RYB colour cube, as on our Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Colors page). They show where each colour goes; your paints will look different.

Colour wheel worksheet: harmonies

Harmony	Colours	Angles from the starting colour	Works on wheels of
Complementary	2	0°, 180°	6, 12, 24
Analogous	3	330°, 0°, 30°	12, 24
Split-complementary	3	0°, 150°, 210°	12, 24
Triadic	3	0°, 120°, 240°	3, 6, 12, 24
Tetradic (square)	4	0°, 90°, 180°, 270°	12, 24
Tetradic (rectangle)	4	0°, 60°, 180°, 240°	6, 12, 24

Starting colour	Complementary	Analogous	Split-complementary	Triadic	Tetradic (square)	Tetradic (rectangle)
Yellow	Violet	Yellow-green, Yellow-orange	Red-violet, Blue-violet	Red, Blue	Red-orange, Violet, Blue-green	Orange, Violet, Blue
Yellow-orange	Blue-violet	Yellow, Orange	Violet, Blue	Red-violet, Blue-green	Red, Blue-violet, Green	Red-orange, Blue-violet, Blue-green
Orange	Blue	Yellow-orange, Red-orange	Blue-violet, Blue-green	Violet, Green	Red-violet, Blue, Yellow-green	Red, Blue, Green
Red-orange	Blue-green	Orange, Red	Blue, Green	Blue-violet, Yellow-green	Violet, Blue-green, Yellow	Red-violet, Blue-green, Yellow-green
Red	Green	Red-orange, Red-violet	Blue-green, Yellow-green	Blue, Yellow	Blue-violet, Green, Yellow-orange	Violet, Green, Yellow
Red-violet	Yellow-green	Red, Violet	Green, Yellow	Blue-green, Yellow-orange	Blue, Yellow-green, Orange	Blue-violet, Yellow-green, Yellow-orange
Violet	Yellow	Red-violet, Blue-violet	Yellow-green, Yellow-orange	Green, Orange	Blue-green, Yellow, Red-orange	Blue, Yellow, Orange
Blue-violet	Yellow-orange	Violet, Blue	Yellow, Orange	Yellow-green, Red-orange	Green, Yellow-orange, Red	Blue-green, Yellow-orange, Red-orange
Blue	Orange	Blue-violet, Blue-green	Yellow-orange, Red-orange	Yellow, Red	Yellow-green, Orange, Red-violet	Green, Orange, Red
Blue-green	Red-orange	Blue, Green	Orange, Red	Yellow-orange, Red-violet	Yellow, Red-orange, Violet	Yellow-green, Red-orange, Red-violet
Green	Red	Blue-green, Yellow-green	Red-orange, Red-violet	Orange, Violet	Yellow-orange, Red, Blue-violet	Yellow, Red, Violet
Yellow-green	Red-violet	Green, Yellow	Red, Violet	Red-orange, Blue-violet	Orange, Red-violet, Blue	Yellow-orange, Red-violet, Blue-violet

These are the answers for a 12-colour RYB wheel, worked out from the angles. To try the same harmonies with screen colours, use the Color Harmony Generator; to pick colours and see them on samples, use the Color Wheel.

Tint, tone and shade rings

Rings	How many	Ring width (5 in wheel)	From the outside in
Pure colour	1	43.2 mm	pure colour
Pure + tint	2	24.1 mm	pure colour, tint (+ white)
Pure + shade	2	24.1 mm	pure colour, shade (+ black)
Pure, tint, tone, shade	4	12.1 mm	pure colour, tint (+ white), tone (+ grey), shade (+ black)

A tint is the colour plus white, a tone is the colour plus grey and a shade is the colour plus black. Every ring is the same width, so a wheel with more rings has narrower rings.

Sizes

Paper	Labels	Largest wheel (inches)	Largest wheel (cm)
US Letter	With names round it	5.5 in	14.2 cm
US Letter	No labels	7.25 in	18.4 cm
A4	With names round it	5.375 in	13.6 cm
A4	No labels	7 in	17.8 cm

Every page has a 1 in (or 2 cm) bar at the bottom to check that the print is at 100%. The six-harmony page sizes its wheels to fit six on one sheet.

Which tool to use

You want	Use
A blank wheel or a colour wheel worksheet to print and colour in	Blank Color Wheel
Harmonies and palettes from a colour on screen	Color Wheel or Color Harmony Generator
Hex codes for primary, secondary and tertiary colours in RYB, RGB and CMY	Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Colors
A printable grid to test your own paint mixes	Color Mixing Chart
Whether a colour is warm or cool	Warm and Cool Colors

For paint, the Paint Mixing Calculator suggests which paints make a colour, and the Warm and Cool Colors checker sorts colours by temperature.

What prints

Download	What is in it
PDF	Every page at real size, vector: segments, rings, marks, boxes and labels, with a check bar
PNG 300 DPI	One picture per page (a ZIP when there are two)
SVG	The page on screen at real size, with shapes, labels and marks in separate groups

Frequently asked questions

What is a blank colour wheel?

A circle cut into equal segments, usually 12, with nothing coloured in. You fill each segment with paint, pencil or marker: the three primaries first, then the secondaries mixed from them, then the tertiaries in between.

Which colours go on a 12-part colour wheel?

In the red, yellow and blue (RYB) wheel used for paint, going round from yellow: yellow, yellow-orange, orange, red-orange, red, red-violet, violet, blue-violet, blue, blue-green, green and yellow-green. Primaries are three segments apart, with a secondary halfway between each pair.

What does the colour wheel worksheet ask?

The worksheet design marks each segment P, S or T (primary, secondary or tertiary), so students mix and paint the right colour in each, then fill in the key boxes. Page 2 is the answer key in RYB colours.

How are the harmonies marked?

By angle, from the starting colour: complementary 180° away, analogous one segment (30°) either side, split-complementary 150° and 210°, triadic every 120°, square every 90° and rectangle at 60°, 180° and 240°. A dot sits on each colour of the harmony, joined by a line. Split, analogous and the tetradic schemes need a 12- or 24-segment wheel.

What are tints, tones and shades?

A tint is a colour mixed with white, a shade is mixed with black, and a tone is mixed with grey. The ring designs give each colour a ring for each, from the outside in, so you can practise all three.

Why are the answer-key colours not the same as my paints?

Real paints vary from brand to brand and batch to batch, and no screen colour matches a paint exactly. The answer key uses conventional RYB screen colours, the same ones as our primary, secondary and tertiary colours page; tints, tones and shades are on-screen blends. Use it to check which colour goes where, not the exact shade.

How is this different from the Color Wheel tool?

The Color Wheel tool is interactive: pick a colour on screen and it finds harmonies and palettes for digital design. This page makes a printable sheet to colour in by hand, with worksheets and an answer key.

Can I print it bigger?

Set the size in inches or cm. The largest wheel that fits on one page is in the Sizes table; landscape or no labels give a little more room. For a poster, download the SVG and print it at any size.

Is it free?

Yes. There is no sign-up, no watermark and no limit.

Is anything uploaded?

No. The wheel is drawn by JavaScript in your browser. Nothing you choose is sent anywhere or saved when you close the page.