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complementary colors
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complementary colors [‚käm·plə′men·trē ′kəl·ərz]
(optics)
Two colors which lie on opposite sides of the white point in the chromaticity diagram so that an additive mixture of the two, in appropriate proportions, can be made to yield an achromatic mixture.


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Six bespoke complementary colours were specified for the Godzilla building.
The tension is heightened by articulating the entry as a separate element through scale and use of a complementary colour, green to the building's red.
 
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