Complementary Contrast

In Itten’s book ‘The Art of Colour’ complementary colours were described to be colours which “incite [each] other to maximum vividness when adjacent’ and annihilate each other, to gray-black, when mixed…”. Complementary colours are also colours which are diagonally adjacent to each other in the colour wheel. In addition, colours could also be balanced by its complementary which is important when creating visual practical work. Complementary colours are also unique as some complementary colours such as yellow/violet are of extreme light and dark contrast, red-orange/blue-green are of cold-warm contrast and red/green have the same brilliance.