The color wheel is one of the first things we ever learn in art class, marking the importance for budding art and design aficionados of all levels to have an understanding of complementary colors ...

Split-complementary This scheme is a bit easier to balance than the complementary scheme. Instead of using one color's exact opposite on the color wheel, it uses the two colors next to the opposite.

Home and Lifestyle author Marni Jameson talks about combining colors at home and reminds everyone to pull out their helpful color wheel.

For example, when you invert white you get black, blue gives orange and red gives green. The computer acts as a complementary color calculator, instantly generating an inverted screen image.

Since pink and green are opposites on the color wheel (complementary colors) they're two hues that naturally work well together while creating a colorful and unexpected look.

Want your bedroom to look like a “sunset in Paris”? Building a new website for a public swimming pool? A new AI project will help you find the right color scheme from a simple text description.

Each panel features a contrasting shade spilling down the front—red on green, for example—the result of Steir’s extra-juicy brushstrokes. The effect is a second, complementary color wheel.