what color makes blue

The color blue is created by combining the colors magenta and cyan. Cyan is a greenish-blue color, and magenta is a purplish-red. This combination works within the CMY (cyan, magenta, yellow) subtractive color model, typically used in printing and pigment mixing. Blue is also recognized as a primary color in the RGB and RYB traditional color models, meaning it cannot be made by mixing other colors in those models, but in pigment mixing, cyan and magenta together produce blue.