| Yellow is the brightest and lightest of all the colours and in fact
does not exist in a darkened form unless degraded, that means
with grey, black or white added. |
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The darkest pure yellow is
brighter than any other colour so it projects forward more than
any other colour. It is most often found against darker colours
it seems to radiate out of the picture.
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| Matching
it with other colour is difficult. A similar blue for example would
have to be quite pale. There is very little latitude in yellow,
to be pure it must be an exact hue. Yellow and every other colour
expands or contracts, (changes apparent character) when associated
with another colour. It is most intense against black and most insipid
against white. |
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is why we find yellow and black used for road signs. |
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Here
we see a play with the yellow gold patch on the building and the
yellow tungsten lighting on the structure in the lower left. Mouse
over to see how darkening the sky brings the yellow forward. |
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