Why do some colours go well together and some colours not?
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Most of the time with clashing colours your problem is not **hue** (red, green, blue), but their *intensity*: either their **value** (how light or dark a colour is) or **saturation** (how grey/’true’ a colour is).
Colours that ‘clash’ violently usually have similar saturation, and colours with similar value bleed into each other. Both are competing for visual attention, making our eyes tired. An artist can put *any* hues together if one is muted and/or darker (base) and the other more vivid (accent).
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