How to use the color spinner
- Press Spin, tap the wheel, or press the space bar.
- The wheel slows down and shows the result in large type.
- Switch sets with the buttons: basic colors, rainbow, primary, secondary or pastels.
Games and ideas
- Color hunt: spin, then everyone finds something that color in 30 seconds.
- Art challenge: draw or paint using only the color you land on.
- Outfit challenge: wear something in the color tomorrow.
- Classroom: learn color names, or practice primary and secondary colors.
- Board games: a spinner when you have lost the original.
Primary and secondary colors
In the traditional painter's color wheel taught at school, the primary colors are red, yellow and blue, and mixing two of them gives the secondary colors: orange (red and yellow), green (yellow and blue) and purple (blue and red). Screens and printers use different primaries (red, green and blue for light; cyan, magenta and yellow for ink).
Questions
Is every color equally likely?
Yes. On the 12 basic colors, each color has a 1 in 12 chance. All the slices are the same size, and your browser's cryptographic random number generator picks where the wheel stops.
Can I add my own colors?
Yes. Type color names into the options box, one per line. Your own options use the wheel's standard slice colors.
Is this a color theory wheel?
No, it is a random spinner. It picks a color at random for games, art prompts and classrooms.