Examples include yellow and purple, red and green, and blue and orange. When you pair complementary colors, they reinforce each other — each color appears more intense than if it stood alone or ...

He took one of Boyd's two-piece, billet Elite wheels and glued various shades and shapes of Color-aid colored paper (which can be purchased at any art-supply store) to the spokes.

Complementary colors appear opposite one another on the color wheel. Examples include yellow and purple, red and green, and blue and orange.

Instead of using one color's exact opposite on the color wheel, it uses the two colors next to the opposite. Instead of red and green, for example, a split-complementary scheme would be red, blue ...