Warm colours advance; cool colours recede. Light colours advance; dark colours recede. Intense colours advance; neutralized colours recede. These rules are basic to understanding how colour affects space. Colours will create different spatial qualities in combination with one another. For example a light, intense colour such as yellow will seem to come further forward when it is surrounded by a cool, dark or neutralized colour than when it is surrounded by an intense orange.
Complimentary colours that set one another off most strongly can activate an area of space and provide strong spatial accents. Analogous colours do not have the same bold contrast but because they move into one another on the colour wheel, they can be arranged to imply movement in space.
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