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

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

I had never heard of a complementary colour in my life, and I was just racking my brains to think what to say, when my eyes happened to light on Miss Smith’s carrots.

From The Fortunes of the Farrells by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

Like the colour itself, the complementary colour can always be expressed either by a single ray of the spectrum, or by white light from which a single ray is deducted.

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

If we deduct the last measures from the first, the difference of aperture will give the complementary colour.

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

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