complementary colour

British  

noun

1. one of any pair of colours, such as yellow and blue, that give white or grey when mixed in the correct proportions

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complementary colour

Since the main character is red, I chose green – the complementary colour – for the pigs, who have stolen the birds’ eggs and are sheltering in the structures.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 23, 2016

A complementary colour, in its strictest sense, may be described as the colour which, combined with the colour whose complement is required, makes up white.

From Colour Measurement and Mixture by W. de W. Abney

Let the complementary colour be its auxiliary, and not its rival.”

From Needlework As Art by Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess Alford

I am forgetting an important principle in the new method—the complementary colour which the eye imagines, but does not see.

From Modern Painting by George (George Augustus) Moore

It is the complementary colour of red, softening and assimilating it by reflected shadows, and setting off the glory of every flower and fruit.

From Needlework As Art by Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess Alford

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