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the color wheel with two arrows pointing to each other

Although colors are a part of our daily lives, there are many variations to them and their uses that not everyone may take advantage of it. Take split-complementary colors, for example.

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an abstract painting with blue and yellow circles in the middle, on a purple background

This image shows a design with color harmony. The color scheme used in the design is split-complementary. The bright yellow is the one being complemented by the blue and purple. The main color, yellow, has a bright chroma while the split-complementary colors are darker hue. This helps us know which color complimented.

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a color wheel with different colors in it

A Split Complementary Colour Scheme is a colour scheme that is created by selecting one colour from the colour wheel and then using one colour from either side of its complementary colour....

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the color wheel is shown with different colors and numbers to choose which one should use

Split-complementary colour relationships is when a base colour is being selected with more than two adjacent colours to its complement.

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an image of a mushroom on a green background

In this picture there is red, green, yellow, and blue. Red and green are complementary. Blue and orange are complementary.

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three different colors with the words split complementary in each color scheme, and one is yellow, purple, and blue

Split Complementary : s a variation of the complementary color scheme. In addition to the base color, it uses the two colors adjacent to its complement. This color scheme has the same strong visual contrast as the complementary color scheme, but has less tension.

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