The theory and practice of color . DARK YELLOW DARK GREEN CHART FOUR. MHiminmmiHmmMmi Chapter VICOMPLEMENTARY COLORS AND HOW TO USE THEM THE Primary and Binary Colors as they appear in Charts II toV, are often spoken of as the six leading Colors, because in theirindividual tones they express the principal steps or stages in thepassage of Colors around the Chromatic leading Colors have different relationships to each other,just as a verb in a sentence has a certain relationship to a noun andanother relationship to an adverb. We shall speak first about the re-lationship which Comple
The theory and practice of color . DARK YELLOW DARK GREEN CHART FOUR. MHiminmmiHmmMmi Chapter VICOMPLEMENTARY COLORS AND HOW TO USE THEM THE Primary and Binary Colors as they appear in Charts II toV, are often spoken of as the six leading Colors, because in theirindividual tones they express the principal steps or stages in thepassage of Colors around the Chromatic leading Colors have different relationships to each other,just as a verb in a sentence has a certain relationship to a noun andanother relationship to an adverb. We shall speak first about the re-lationship which Complementary Colors bear to each other. The three Binaries, orange, green and violet, are each made by com-bining equal portions of two Primaries. Orange, for example, is madeup of equal parts of yellow and red. In orange, therefore, one of the ele-ments of color is lacking—the element of blue. Blue is the one thingneeded by orange to complete the Color circuit. Blue is therefore saidto be Complementary to orange. Again, violet is made up of equal partsof red and blue
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