Color Mixer
Blend two or more colors into one by averaging their RGB channels. Add up to 8 colors, watch the mixed result update live, and copy or download it.
What is it
When you average two colors channel by channel (red with red, green with green, blue with blue), you get the midpoint — the exact color that sits visually between them. Adding more colors pulls the result toward their center of mass. This is how design tools compute a "blend" of two swatches.
Notes & fun facts
Mixing paint is subtractive (mix red and yellow, get orange). Mixing light on a screen is additive — but averaging RGB on a display gives a perceptual middle that designers have used for decades to choose harmonious palettes.
Origin & history
RGB color blending as a design tool came with early graphics software in the 1980s. The average-RGB operation was popularized by MacPaint and Photoshop's "color picker" in the early 1990s; modern design tools still use it as the default "blend two colors" behavior.
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