complementary colors

An image with strongly contrasting or opposing colors, most commonly taking the form of warm-cool contrast.

Opposing colors contrast with each other more than any other color pair, making both colors appear brighter, or to bring focus to a certain part of the image.

Examples

Blue and yellow

Blue and red

Green and red

Green and pink

See also

• analogous colors
• high contrast
• triadic colors
• Tag group:Colors

External links

• Wikipedia: Complementary colors

The following tags are aliased to this tag: color_contrast and opposite_colors (learn more).