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Complementary color   /kˌɑmpləmˈɛntri kˈələr/   Listen
Complementary color

noun
1.
Either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or grey (in the case of pigments).  Synonym: complementary.






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"Complementary color" Quotes from Famous Books



... themselves not completely saturated. The way to get color sensations of maximum saturation is first to stare at one color, so as to fatigue or adapt the eye for that color, and then to turn the eye upon the complementary color, which, under these conditions, appears fuller and richer than anything otherwise obtainable. The corners, R, G, and B, denote colors of maximum saturation, and the whole of the triangle outside of the heavy line is ...
— Psychology - A Study Of Mental Life • Robert S. Woodworth



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