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Louis Lantos
766 PointsComplement doesn't work with greyscale?
Hi,
I guess this isn't so much an issue with the tutorial, as using actual colours (such as red, blue, green, etc.) works with using complement, but complement doesn't derive the opposite of greyscale hex values. Is this an error on my part, or is this just something Sass doesn't do?
I've tried using black, white, and any number of grey values, but with no luck, it always just returns the same colour, not the opposite.
Thanks
2 Answers
Cena Mayo
55,236 PointsHi Louis,
The main thing to remember about complementary colors is that they are opposite one another on a color wheel. Black and white are technically not colors - black is the absence of color, and white is the combination of all colors. Certainly you can get effective contrast and pleasing design with black and white, but they are essentially neutral colors, as is gray - meaning that they can typically work with any other color.
There's more to color theory than the above, but hopefully that basically answers why you're not getting a 'complement' to a given greyscale value - gray isn't on the color wheel, so there's nothing 'opposite' it to form a complement.
Louis Lantos
766 PointsOf course! I had a suspicion that may be it. It's certainly good to know I didn't take a misstep on the deep dive! Thanks for the answer.