cold color
Americannoun
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Thermal images assign a temperature to every pixel; we overlaid the standard “red is hot, blue is cold” color scheme.
From Slate
In the case of color-schemes not all objects are tinged with the desired “warm” or “cold” color.
From Project Gutenberg
Using cold color — deep blues and slivers of white — Houthuesen conveyed the same inner exaltation.
From New York Times
Painter Morris delights the eye with rich splashes of hot & cold color that shine with the clean light of the Southwest He tickles the fancy with such wryly original subject matter as Three Ghosts Beating a Ghost.
From Time Magazine Archive
Warm and Cold Colors.—Red and yellow are called warm colors, and blue is called a cold color.
From Project Gutenberg
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