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either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or grey (in the case of pigments)
yellow and blue are complementaries
How To Use complementary color In A Sentence
- Adjust the triad, tetrad and analogic views to sample a range of complementary colors Instant Color Schemes - Freshblog
- For eyeliners and eye brow pencils, select a shade of gray or brown or a complementary color rather than black.
- To understand the magnificence of the wonderful structure, the reader must have in mind the laws affecting light in transmission through water -- the frangibility of the rays, the frequent alternations in dispersion, reflection, interference and accidental and complementary color. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873
- One of them must be primary and the other a secondary color. (4) Red and green are complementary colors.
- One of them must be primary and the other a secondary color. (4) Red and green are complementary colors.
- Colors that can be found opposite each other in the color wheel are called complementary colors.
- Consequently Seurat did not mix the colors on his palette, but rather put little tiny spots of complementary color pigments on the canvas.
- These color-pairs are known as antagonistic or complementary colors. The Science of Human Nature A Psychology for Beginners
- In general, any region in the visual field tends to induce its complementary color in neighboring areas.
- Examples of complementary colors to a red color theme is burgundy, wine, claret red, dark pink, and purple.
