complementaries

Richard, it's the fact that the opposite colours are not paint-mixing complementaries but exact additive complementaries that makes the, ahem, Yurmby wheel arguably the best choice for deciding questions of colour harmony.

The Color Wheel, Part 7 James Gurney 2010

Nevertheless, anyone wanting to find exact additive complementaries of any given colour need only bring up the colour in the Photoshop (or similar) colour picker, and inspect the range of colours (of varying lightness and chroma) with H differing by 180.

The Color Wheel, Part 7 James Gurney 2010

Thank you for the precise distinction of viaul vs. mixing complementaries, I didn't have it so clear.

Charting Pigments James Gurney 2010

It's light stimulus, not paint, that reaches our eyes, and all visual colour interactions - including successive contrast and afterimages, classic simultaneous contrast, coloured shadows, assimilation, optical mixing, and so on - follow additive complementary relationships, not paint-mixing complementaries.

The Color Wheel, Part 7 James Gurney 2010

Far from overpowering the beholder by the juxtaposition of high-keyed complementaries -one of the stock devices of what has come to be called "op art"- Hover tends to appear dark, subdued and perhaps uninteresting at first glance.

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The Munsell hue circle is I believe nearly as good for this purpose, as its opposite colours depart only a little from exact additive complementaries.

The Color Wheel, Part 7 James Gurney 2010

Far from overpowering the beholder by the juxtaposition of high-keyed complementaries -one of the stock devices of what has come to be called "op art"- Hover tends to appear dark, subdued and perhaps uninteresting at first glance.

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But there are lots of economic complementaries, lots of economic opportunities.

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As for Turner, I think he is working with the older idea of warm versus cool colors, rather than complementaries as described by Chevreuil.

Goethe’s Color Oppositions James Gurney 2009

Draw a color circle with yellow, magenta and cyan each 120 degrees apart and red, blue and green in between them, and you will see where the complementaries lie.

Goethe’s Color Oppositions James Gurney 2009