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Definition of Complementary color
1. Noun. Either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or grey (in the case of pigments). "Yellow and blue are complementaries"
Generic synonyms: Chromatic Color, Chromatic Colour, Spectral Color, Spectral Colour
Lexicographical Neighbors of Complementary Color
Literary usage of Complementary color
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1877)
"Now, on observing these facts, let it be noticed, especially, that the effect
produced, the complementary color given, is instantaneous. ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1888)
"The complementary color is selected because it does not disturb the relation of
the system-color to the colors of adjacent systems. ..."
3. Proportion and Harmony of Line and Color in Painting, Sculpture, and by George Lansing Raymond (1899)
"If, when we turn our eyes away from the wafer, the surface at which we look be
of the same color as the wafer, the complementary color ..."
4. An American Text-book of Physiology by William Henry Howell (1900)
"It is also evident that the complementary color of green is purple, which is not
a spectral color at all, but a color obtained by the union of violet and ..."
5. An Introduction to psychology by Mary Whiton Calkins (1901)
"... in light of complementary color, should have formed in us such a habit of
inference as this theory supposes. The Helmholtz theory is disproved, finally, ..."
6. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1893)
"The complementary color will appear to rush in upon the disk from all sides.
The explanation is that after the withdrawal of the head the retinal image of ..."
7. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1852)
"A brilliant red, combined with a complementary color, will always produce the
required ... receives a new impression of the surrounding complementary color; ..."
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