Tertiary Colours are three only, citrine, russet, and olive.
Cold greens contrast with purple and harmonize with citrine.
Warm greens contrast with purple and harmonize with citrine.
The third circle shows how slate, citrine and russet are made.
The citrine and the plum, however, are approximate contrasts.
Slate is made of green and violet, and is thus also related to citrine.
About 1710 citrine and yellow were used in connection with the tan (Plate 2).
Made by combining two secondary colors; tertiary colors are slate, russet and citrine.
Thus, in citrine we find two equivalents of yellow, and one each of red and blue; hence it is the yellow tertiary.
We also see that purple and citrine harmonise, and green and russet, and orange and olive.
lemon-colored, late 14c., from French citrin, from Latin citrus (see citrus). From 1879 as a color name.
