The two common and frequently used color spaces for building color wheels are the traditional Red Yellow Blue (RYB) color space used by painters for centuries and the Red Green Blue (RGB) color space frequently used for desktop and mobile display devices. Color wheels are tools that depict color relationships by organizing colors in a circle to visualize how the hues relate to each other. Like concepts in music, these harmonies are based around color combinations on the Color Wheel that help to provide common guidelines for how color hues will work together. Color harmony is the process of choosing colors that work well together in the composition of an image. The difference between a painters’ and a display color spaceįirst, some background on the centuries old concept of Color Harmony. Let’s get started by exploring how blue and yellow might be complementary colors in color theory and then examine the official Ukrainian blue and yellow colors. The results are unexpected and exciting in terms of color deficiency simulations. I will focus on the specific color combination associated with the Ukrainian flag since it is currently receiving much attention. I discuss how to use blue and yellow as complementary colors in a data visualization. In this writing I provide a different perspective on this combination. Very often the combination of blue and yellow suggests the color green.
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