What are the complementary colors to green?
In color theory, the complementary colors to green include green’s direct complementary color, as well as the colors in its split complementary and double complementary (tetradic) schemes.
The complementary color to green (direct opposite on the wheel) is:
- Red (using a traditional artist/RYB wheel)
- Magenta (using a RGB/screen-based wheel like QuillBot’s free online color wheel tool)
The split complementary colors to green (two neighbors of the
complement) are:
- Red-orange and red-violet if the complement is red on your wheel
- Pink/red-magenta and violet/purple-magenta if the complement is magenta on your wheel
You get the double complementary (tetradic) colors to green by:
- Picking a second hue next to green on the wheel (like yellow-green or blue-green)
- Then finding the complements of both (e.g., the complements of green and blue-green are red and red-orange—or the equivalents on your wheel)
