Complementary Colors

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In web design, it is important to know how to use colors to create the necessary color combinations that are needed for your work. Their mixing and combining or the so-called color theory.

In order to create these color combinations first you need to understand what color wheel is and how to use complementary colors.

 

What are complementary colors?

Complementary colors represent two colors on the color wheel, that are opposite to one another. For example, a complementary color to red is green, or the color blue is yellow. The complementary colors consist of a single primary color and one secondary color. But before we get into the definition of the primary color and how to create a secondary color. First, we need to explain what is a color wheel.

 

What is the color wheel?

The color wheel is a visual representation of colors with their hues around a circle. Color wheels show the relationship between the primary colors, secondary colors, and tertiary colors.

For example, primary colors are blue, red, and yellow on the RYB color wheel. By mixing equal parts of two primary colors, you can create a secondary color. In this case, when we combine red and yellow we get a secondary color which is orange. Yellow and blue create green. And the mix of red and blue is purple. Then tertiary colors are created by mixing together one secondary color and one primary color.

 

How to use complementary colors?

One thing that makes an impression is that every set of complementary colors contains one warm color and one cool color. For example, cool colors are blue, green, and purple, and warm colors include red, orange, and yellow.

In order to attract the user’s eye more easily, you can use simultaneous contrast.  This contrast includes a warm color to complement a cool color and is the highest contrast found on a color wheel. For example, artists use complementary colors next to each other when painting a vivid sunset. Or on holidays such as Christmas people use to decorate with colors red and green.

In certain situations, the complementary colors with similar strengths are competing with one another. And this may actually cause the two colors to appear more harsh. The result can seem quite garish.

To avoid this use one of them as the dominant color. Then the second complementary color will become an accent color to the first one. Use the dominant color in larger areas and the accent color in smaller doses. This creates a balance in strength, allowing the eye to take it all in without feeling overwhelmed.

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