Everything In This One Was Just Pure Eye Candy - Tumblr Posts

Complementary colors are pairs of colors which, when combined, cancel each other out. This means that when combined, they produce a grey-scale color like white or black. But when they are placed next to each other, they create the strongest contrast for those particular two colors. Due to this striking color clash, the term “opposite colors” is often considered more appropriate than "complementary colors".

In the traditional RYB color model, a well-known complementary/opposite pairing is blue and orange, which is a color scheme that has become a trend for many films, particularly in the action genre, in order to achieve a visually striking contrast to the cinematography.