Use red!50!blue with \definecolor [duplicate]

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Defining a Color using another

How can one define a new color using the mix of other colors like red!50!blue. I can us this as an arguement of \color but not with \defincolor …

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{xcolor}

\definecolor{mix}{named}{red!50!blue}

\begin{document}
    \color{red!50!blue} works
    \color{mix} doesn't work
\end{document}

I guess it’s a problem with the pseudo-modell named since red!50!blue is not a single color name. But is there a color-modell accepting mixed colors to define a new one?

Answer 1

Use \colorlet:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{xcolor}

\colorlet{mix}{red!50!blue}

\begin{document}
    \color{red!50!blue} works
    \color{mix} work as well
\end{document}