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  2. Complementary colors - Wikipedia

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    In this traditional scheme, a complementary color pair contains one primary color (yellow, blue or red) and a secondary color (green, purple or orange). The complement of any primary color can be made by combining the two other primary colors. For example, to achieve the complement of yellow (a primary color) one could combine red and blue.

  3. Monochrome - Wikipedia

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    Example of a monochromatic color scheme Monochromatic color gradient on color wheel. A monochromatic color scheme comprises (tones, tints, and shades) of a single hue.Tints are achieved by adding white, thereby increasing lightness; Shades are achieved by adding black, thereby decreasing lightness; Tones are achieved by adding gray, thereby decreasing colorfulness.

  4. Light-on-dark color scheme - Wikipedia

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    The opposite color set, a dark-on-light color scheme, was originally introduced in WYSIWYG word processors to simulate ink on paper, and became the norm. Microsoft introduced a dark theme in the Anniversary Update of Windows 10 in 2016. [6] In 2018, Apple followed in macOS Mojave. [7] In September 2019, iOS 13 and Android 10 both introduced ...

  5. Color scheme - Wikipedia

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    This scheme is hard to harmonize and requires a color to dominate or subdue the colors; if all four colors are used in equal amounts, the color scheme may look unbalanced. The rectangle color scheme is a four-color combination consisting of a base color and three colors that are 60 degrees, 180 degrees, and 240 degrees apart from the base color ...

  6. Color wheel - Wikipedia

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    In color theory, a color scheme is the choice of colors used in design for a range of media. For example, the use of a white background with black text is an example of a common default color scheme in web design. Color schemes are logical combinations of colors on the color wheel. Color schemes are used to create style and appeal.

  7. Tint, shade and tone - Wikipedia

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    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 additive color is darker than the parent color.

  8. Figure of speech - Wikipedia

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    For example, the phrase, "John, my best friend" uses the scheme known as apposition. Tropes (from Greek trepein, 'to turn') change the general meaning of words. An example of a trope is irony, which is the use of words to convey the opposite of their usual meaning ("For Brutus is an honorable man; / So are they all, all honorable men").

  9. Political colour - Wikipedia

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    A unified colour scheme (blue for Democrats, red for Republicans) began to be implemented with the 1996 presidential election; in the weeks following the 2000 election, there arose the terminology of red states and blue states. Political observers latched on to this association, which resulted from the use of red for Republican victories and ...