Contrasting Colors

Contrasting Colors. Too many colors can often muddy a palette, but the contrasting yellow is the glue that holds them all together. But you certainly don't have to have to stick to a black-and-white color palette to create a high-contrast design.

This tool follows the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), which are a series of recommendations for making the web more accessible. Opponent process theory suggests that the most contrasting color pairs are red-green, and blue-yellow. Orange, reds, and yellows are the warm colors, while blues, greens, and purples are the cool colors.

Use pieces of teal room décor like wall art, frames, or towels against gray painted walls to take advantage of the beautiful pairing of the respective bluish tones in these two cool colors.

The bold contrast of this rich color against gray is guaranteed to add some easy drama to your room while keeping the space calm and restorative.

This helps create what is known as simultaneous contrast, the highest contrasts available on the color wheel. The combination of such colors creates a vivid and energizing effect, especially at maximum saturation. Color contrast involves using two different colors with different amounts of tint and shade.