What color do yellow and teal make?
Yellow and Teal make olive.
Yellow and Teal make olive, #55c522. That is the result in equal parts, mixing pigment rather than light - paint, ink and dye all behave this way.
Equal parts yellow and teal · #55c522
Change the ratio
Very little of a mix is ever half and half. Shifting the balance moves the result along the range between the two colours.
3 parts yellow, 1 part teal · #b6e60f
Equal parts · #55c522
1 part yellow, 3 parts teal · #079c44
Lighter and darker
With white added - a tint · #aae291
With black added - a shade · #337614
Why it works
Pigment mixes subtractively: yellow paint absorbs the wavelengths it is not reflecting, teal absorbs its own set, and olive is what neither of them absorbed. This is why paint behaves differently from a screen, where light adds together instead.
Frequently asked questions
What color do yellow and teal make?
Yellow and Teal make olive, #55c522. Mixed in equal parts that is the result you get with paint, ink or any other pigment.
How do I make the result lighter or darker?
Add white for a tint - here that gives sage. Add black for a shade, which gives green. Add white a little at a time, because it takes far less than people expect to shift a mix.
What happens if I use more yellow than teal?
Three parts yellow to one part teal gives lime. Reversing it to one part yellow and three parts teal gives teal instead.
Does this work the same way on a screen?
No. Screens mix light additively, so red and green light make yellow there. These results are subtractive - paint, ink, dye and pigment - which is what people mean when they ask what two colours make.