What is the contrast color for green? The one which stands out most with green?

Question

I mean for color theory, not for fashion. The litteral contrast color to green.

Answer 1

Contrast, you ask, is not the same as complement. Contrast would be a black-white comparison. So, the contrast to green would depend on the hues that created the green, and the amount of white and black added to it. Green can be warm or cool, even grayed down. You need to evaluate where that green fits on a gray scale (if green were photographed in black and white) then create another color with the greatest amount of grayscale (black-white) difference. It could be many colors (hues) that make the same amont of contrast.

Answer 2

The SHADE of green makes a difference. The Christmas Colors of Pine Green and Crimson are less of a contrast, since both are
Bluish and Dark:
For greater contrast, the more Yellow that's in the Green, add more Blue to the Red, and use a Darker shade of Red with a Soft Shade of Green (and vice-versa). Using Crayola's Crayons for example: "Spring Green"/"Violet Red or "Aquamarine"/"Yellow-Orange".
TIP: The 64-Crayon box is a great starting point. Get a piece of "Bright White" paper and mix, match, and blend. When you find something you like, tuck it in your pocket & head to the store.

Answer 3

Purple is the complimentary opposite of green.
But that is just one way of considering color.

Color theory is somewhate complex. But in terms of standard color theory the opposites are paired like this: red/cyan, green/magenta,
blue/yellow.

Here's a way to study this, using Photoshop:

Take a color photo of a person... for simplicity sake, a caucasion person... and open it in photoshop. See that the image mode is RGB (not CYMK): now look at the skin tones... open the info pallette (windows//info) and switch to the eyedropper tool, which measures colors and color density. Blow the image up so big you can see the individual pixels. Now run the eyedropper around the image and look at the colors that appear on the information palette.

Skin color, you see, is very complex. Now if the image has a robust reddish color in the skin, or if the person is more pale, or with a yellow or greenish complexion you will see different results. If a person looks kind of greenish (common enough in a photo taken, for example, out of doors) you can adjust this in the following way. Open the curves pallete (Mode//adjust//curves) and you will see a diagonal line. Above it a tab which says, MASTER, red, green, blue. Switch to green.

Now place your mouse on the diagonal line halfway up it and click. You create an anchor point on the line. Gently pull the line down. You are subtracting green, which is the same thing as increasing magenta. You will see the skin change hues from the pale washed out, to something that looks rosier and healthier.

If you open a lot of pictures and play with this, you will quickly get a feeling for color opposites and their visual impact.

Free color theory lesson from Yahoo answers.

Answer 4

It's complementary opposite.
That is, on a six color wheel red opposes green.
To find a complement stare rigidly at a size-able area of a pure example of a color. Close your eyes and after a time an after-image or it's compliment will appear.

Answer 5

As green is a mix of blue and yellow, the third primary colour red gives the strongest contrast in colour. The problem could however be colourblindness which affectsa up to 10% of males. red/green colourblind people will see this only as grey-values.

Answer 6

For a naturally and somewhat passionate contrast, I'd say red (look at the usual rose and what colors you find for it) or for a more mysterious contrast, purple.

Hope this helped you! : )

Answer 7

Red

Answer 8

Red

Answer 9

The complimentary color of green is red

Answer 10

Actually it is purple. They are contrasting colors on the color wheel that compliment each other.