Rules for obtaining Harmonious Combinations of
Two or More Colors.
WE will again turn to the scale of complementary colors on Plate 32. This scale, or chart, was arranged with the greatest care, so that colors which are complementary would be exactly opposite to each other. If the reader desires to get the strongest combination possible, with any one of the colors shown in this chart, he must take the color directly opposite to the one selected. If red be the one selected, then its opposite, sea-green , will make its strongest combination. It is hard for the printer nowadays to get out a job of color printing without using red in some form. It is certainly the most important color with which we have to deal. That being the case, we will first give the colors which will harmonize with red.
TWO-COLOR COMBINATIONS.
Red will harmonize with either of the two primaries, yellow or blue, and also with any one of the colors lying between them, in their normal state, or when reduced with white, or modified with
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