Complimentary color theme is selecting two colors which lies
opposite to each other in color wheel.
This theme works well as it give a dynamic look to the room.
Best three combinations of complimentary colors are
1.
Blue and
orange
2.
Red and
green
3.
Purple and
yellow
The three traditional sets of complimentary colors, red and green, yellow and purple, and orange and blue. You can see
them positioned opposite one another on the color wheel .
Complementary colors, when used
together in color schemes, are especially dynamic and pleasing to the eye. This
is because different types of cones (the photoreceptor cells in your eye that
contribute to color vision) perceive different colors of light. If you stare
for a long time at a block of color and then quickly look at a white wall,
you'll see a light after image in the opposite, or complementary,
color.
For example, let's say you're
staring at a blue square. after a while, the cells in your eye that process
blue light will become fatigued, making the signal they send to your brain
slightly weaker. Since that part of the visual spectrum is slightly suppressed,
when you look at a white wall after staring at the blue square, you'll see a
faint orange afterimage. What you're seeing is the white spectrum of light from
the wall, minus a tiny bit of blue, which your brain processes as orange.
It means that combinations of complementary
colors are especially dynamic together, since they play up each other's
intensity. A small amount of orange really elevates in a blue room (and vice
versa) because eye wants to see that color.