Primary colors: red, blue and yellow
Secondary colors: green, orange and purple
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The primary colors in the RGB color model are red, green, and blue. When combined, they produce the secondary colors cyan, magenta, and yellow.
Secondary colors are formed when two primary colors are blended together . When you mix red and yellow together, they creates the color orange. Yellow and blue create green. Red and blue create violet.Black is not a secondary color. Alizarin Crimson and Prussian Blue will give you a deep black, but neither of those are primary colors.White is not a secondary color either, since it contains none of the primary color pigments, (red, Blue and Yellow).
In additive system (RGB): green is a primary but orange and violet are secondary. In subtractive system (CMY): green, orange, and violet are all three secondary.
Blue is a primary color and as such is not made up of other colors. It is simply blue Blue is not a primary color of pigment. It was once thought to be a primary color, but it is secondary. Magenta and cyan are the primary colors mixed to make blue. Blue is a primary color of light
Composite colors are opposite colors. Blue and orange are composite colors, because blue is a primary color that isn't required to make the secondary color, orange. Red and green are composite colors, because green doesn't need red to be made. Yellow and violet are also composite colors.