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  2. Complementary colors - Wikipedia

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    [10] Out of the opposition of blue and yellow, through a process called "steigerung", or "augmentation" a third color, red, was born. [page needed] Goethe also proposed several sets of complementary colors which "demanded" each other. According to Goethe, "yellow 'demands' violet; orange [demands] blue; purple [demands] green; and vice versa". [11]

  3. Tint, shade and tone - Wikipedia

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    Lightening a color by adding white can cause a shift towards blue [clarification needed] when mixed with reds and oranges (see Abney effect). Another practice when darkening a color is to use its opposite, or complementary, color (e.g. violet-purple added to yellowish-green) in order to neutralize it without a shift in hue, and darken it if the ...

  4. Opponent process - Wikipedia

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    Thus, the cells are coding complementary colors instead of opponent colors. Pridmore reported also of green–magenta cells in the retina and V1. He thus argued that the red–green and blue–yellow cells should be instead called green–magenta, red–cyan and blue–yellow complementary cells. An example of the complementary process can be ...

  5. Magenta - Wikipedia

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    (The secondary colors of pigment are blue, green, and red.) As such, the hue magenta is the complement of green: magenta pigments absorb green light; thus magenta and green are opposite colors. The CMYK printing process was invented in the 1890s, when newspapers began to publish color comic strips.

  6. Shades of blue - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 15 February 2025. Variety of the color blue For other uses, see Shades of Blue (disambiguation). "Shade of Blue" redirects here. For the song by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, see Shade of Blue (song). For the R&B/funk band, see Shade of Blue (band). Blue Wavelength 440–490 nm Common connotations ...

  7. Impossible color - Wikipedia

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    The human eye's red-to-green and blue-to-yellow values of each one-wavelength visible color [citation needed] Human color sensation is defined by the sensitivity curves (shown here normalized) of the three kinds of cone cells: respectively the short-, medium- and long-wavelength types.

  8. List of historical sources for pink and blue as gender ...

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    But as blue is the colour appropriated to male children, as rose or pink is to those of the opposite sex.... [9] Godey's Magazine, volumes 52-53 edited by Louis Antoine Godey, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale [10] But as blue is the color appropriated to male children, as rose or pink to those of the opposite sex.... Putnam's Monthly - volume 7 - page 558

  9. Color wheel - Wikipedia

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    Gradient RGB/CMY color wheel Seven-color and twelve-color color circles from 1708 (attributed to Claude Boutet) Wilhelm von Bezold's 1874 Farbentafel. A color wheel or color circle [1] is an abstract illustrative organization of color hues around a circle, which shows the relationships between primary colors, secondary colors, tertiary colors etc.