Mix Blue and Yellow 50/50 — What Color Do You Get?
Mixing blue (#0000FF) and yellow (#FFFF00) equally at 50% produces green (#007F7F or similar).
How to use this tool
- Enter two hex colors.
- Set the weight for Color 1 (0% = all Color 2, 100% = all Color 1, 50% = equal mix).
- The output shows the blended hex and RGB values.
An equal 50/50 mix of blue (#0000FF) and yellow (#FFFF00) produces a green hue in additive digital mixing.
Frequently asked questions
- How is mixing calculated?
- Each RGB channel is linearly interpolated: result_channel = color1_channel × weight + color2_channel × (1 − weight).
- Why does red + blue not give magenta exactly?
- Pure red is #ff0000 and pure blue is #0000ff. A 50/50 RGB channel average gives #800080 (128,0,128), which is dark purple — not #ff00ff. To get #ff00ff you need full intensity on both channels simultaneously, which requires additive (light) mixing rather than channel averaging.