Split complementary

Great designs thrive on excellent color selection. And anyone who's ever designed anything knows how frustrating it can be to create unique colors. Well, that experience is about to get a whole lot better.

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Learn how to master split complementary colors, one of the most basic and most approachable color schemes (aka the compound color scheme).

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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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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.

Color Harmony: as suggested by the title, this piece of artwork displays a contrast between blue and orange. Specifically, purple is used with a greener-blue to produce a split complimentary.

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