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  2. Complementary colors - Wikipedia

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    Complementary colors are pairs of colors which, when combined or mixed, cancel each other out (lose chroma) by producing a grayscale color like white or black. [1] [better source needed] When placed next to each other, they create the strongest contrast for those two colors. Complementary colors may also be called "opposite colors".

  3. 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.

  4. Color theory - Wikipedia

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    For example, a piece of yellow fabric placed on a blue background will appear tinted orange because orange is the complementary color to blue. Chevreul formalized three types of contrast: [11] simultaneous contrast, which appears in two colors viewed side by side,

  5. Color wheel - Wikipedia

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    Monochromatic colors are different shades of the same color. For example, light blue, indigo, and cyan blue. Complementary colors are colors across from each other on a color wheel. For example, blue and orange. Triadic colors are colors that are evenly across from each other, in a triangle over the color wheel. For example, the primary colors ...

  6. Color scheme - Wikipedia

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    This color scheme is the most varied color scheme because it uses six colors which are arranged into three complementary color pairs, or it could be seen as two color schemes that are complimentary to each other—such as two triadic color schemes or two near-analogous color schemes—or adding a complementary pair to a rectangular tetradic ...

  7. Opponent process - Wikipedia

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    Thus, the cells are coding complementary colors instead of opponent colors. Pridmore reported also of green–magenta cells in the retina and V1. He thus argued that the red–green and blue–yellow cells should be instead called green–magenta, red–cyan and blue–yellow complementary cells. An example of the complementary process can be ...

  8. Light in painting - Wikipedia

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    In general, the shade is made by mixing a color with a darker shade, plus blue and a complementary of the proper color (such as yellow and dark blue, red and primary blue or magenta and green). [37] The light and chromatic harmony of a painting depends on color, i.e. the relationship between the parts of a painting to create cohesion.

  9. Tint, shade and tone - Wikipedia

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    Some tints and shades of blue. In color theory, a tint is a mixture of a color with white, which increases lightness, while a shade is a mixture with black, which increases darkness. Both processes affect the resulting color mixture's relative saturation. A tone is produced either by mixing a color with gray, or by both tinting and shading. [1]