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  2. How to Use a Color Wheel to Get Perfect Color Pairings Every Time

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    Color Wheel Terminology. Neutral: black, white, brown, and gray Complementary: opposites on the color wheel, which appear brighter when they are used together (examples: yellow and purple, red and ...

  3. Complementary colors - Wikipedia

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    The traditional color wheel model dates to the 18th century and is still used by many artists today. This model designates red, yellow and blue as primary colors with the primary–secondary complementary pairs of red–green, blue-orange, and yellow–purple.

  4. Color wheel - Wikipedia

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    A color wheel or color circle [1] is an abstract illustrative organization of color hues around a circle, which shows the relationships between primary colors, secondary colors, tertiary colors etc. Some sources use the terms color wheel and color circle interchangeably; [ 2 ] [ 3 ] however, one term or the other may be more prevalent in ...

  5. Color scheme - Wikipedia

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    A split-complementary (also called compound harmony) color scheme comprises three colors, namely a base color and two colors that are 150 degrees and 210 degrees apart from the base color. The split-complementary color scheme has the same sharp visual contrast as the complementary color scheme but has less pressure. [further explanation needed]

  6. Harmony (color) - Wikipedia

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    The traditional RYB (red–yellow–blue) color wheel, often used for selecting harmonious colors in art The RGB (red–green–blue) color wheel, matching most technological processes, but exhibiting different complementary colors The Munsell color wheel attempts to divide hues into equal perceptual differences.

  7. Ostwald color system - Wikipedia

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    The Color Harmony Manuals were published beginning in 1942, and have been out of print since 1972. [2] Ostwald's first Color Harmony Manual was a set of 12 handbooks showing complementary hues. The first edition was published in 1942. It contained 680 color chips. Each color chip was a 5/8 inch square and had a tab where the Ostwald notation ...

  8. Color-blocking - Wikipedia

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    Color-blocking is thought of as the exploration of taking colors that are opposites on the color wheel and pairing them together to make complementary color combinations. [1] It is commonly associated in fashion as a trend that originated from the artwork of Dutch painter, Piet Mondrian. However, other experts argue whether his artwork is the ...

  9. Index of color-related articles - Wikipedia

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    Achromatic color; Additive color; Afterimage; Analogous colors; Bayer filter; Blue–green distinction in language; Chromaticity; Chrominance; Chromolithograph