Complimentary Colors "Life is a great big canvas...Throw all the color on it you can"... The complementary color scheme is made of two colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel. This scheme looks best when you put a warm color against a cool color, for example, red versus green-blue. The complementary scheme is intrinsically high-contrast. When using the complementary scheme, it is important to choose a dominant color and use its complementary color for accents. Using one color…

"Split Complementary Colors" by Bev Larson This is just a simple purple glass and beads, juxtaposed with what seem to be yellow apples...

This painting is split-complementary. It has the red and then the blues and greens from the opposite side of the color wheel.

Last week we blogged about ways to choose a colour theme for effective graphic design, and since then, we have been getting a lot of queries. So we decided to take it a step ahead, and provide you with a colour combination cheat sheet. Of course, there is nothing right or wrong, and most of