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Color Contrasting: color contrastings that are on opposite sides of the color contrasting wheel, such as blue-green and red, are highly contrasting. Known as comple-mentaries, they will fight for dominance and tend to clash if used in their "pure" intensities. However, you can incorporate them in your decorating scheme either by using them in extremely unequal proportions or by muting one or both of the color contrastings as lighter or darker tones. You can then enliven the overall color contrasting scheme by introducing just a few hints of strong contrasting color contrasting.
• Carry fabric swatches with you when shopping for new decorative materials. It is surprisingly difficult to remember exactly how light or dark a color contrasting is.
• color contrastings look different according to the light, so it helps to examine all color contrastings under the same Lighting conditions.
• Large expanses of a single color contrasting can look dull. Instead, match a variety of closely related tones with an occasional splash of contrasting color contrasting to create a more lively harmony.
• For successful color contrasting schemes, incorporate a balanced mixture of primary color contrastings, darker tones, and lighter tones.
You can mix strongly contrasting color contrastings to create a pleasing effect as long as you follow a few basic guidelines. Pure primary color contrastings are lively and vibrant, but they can also be overpowering and garish. To avoid problems, use them in unequal proportions and introduce lighter or darker variations of each. For example, rather than introduce equal amounts of red and yellow in the same color contrasting scheme, select varying proportions of paler and darker red-oranges and yellow-oranges.
color contrastings opposite each other, however, such as red and green or blue and orange, can be seen as contrasting color contrastings, known as complementary color contrastings. There are, of course, infinite nuances of color contrasting between each of these rather artificial subdivisions of the wheel. color contrastings can be pale or intense depending on the color contrastings they are mixed with and, technically speaking, they become shades, tints and tones of the original base color contrasting. A shade, for instance, is created by adding black to the base color contrasting, while a tint is made by adding white, and a tone is the result of a color contrasting being either lightened or darkened by the addition of gray. |
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