Citations:yellow-red

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English citations of yellow-red

(possibly a modern compound rather than inherited)[edit]

  • 2009, Elisabeth Wagner-Koch, Gerard Wagner, The Individuality of Colour, Rudolf Steiner Press (→ISBN), page 56:
    A yellow-red (orange) accommodates itself harmoniously to this. Just as the cool red strove away from the blue-green, the yellow-red strives toward the yellow-green. The power of attraction of these two colours, their mutual sympathy, gives  ...

(possibly SOP)[edit]

  • 1917, Evelyn Peters Ellsworth, Textiles and Costume Design, page 60:
    Between purple and red, there is red-purple ; between red and yellow, there is yellow-red; between yellow and green, there is green-yellow; between green and blue, there is blue-green; between blue and purple, there is purple-blue.
  • 1930, Technical Bulletin, page 29:
    Obviously one will be red, but will the other hue be a yellow-red (orange) or a red-purple? It depends upon which is the nearer to tomato coloring. Ordinarily, tomatoes will be yellowish-reds, rather than purplish-reds, so a yellow-red disk will be selected to use with the red one.
  • 2011, Lucia R. Ronchi, The visual balance between globality and interactions, Lucia Ronchi (→ISBN), page 54:
    In other sessions we used gratings where the colors of two nearby lines were not opponent, but independent, that is: blue-red; blue-green; yellow-red; yellow-green.
  • 2019, Michiko Ohkura, Kawaii Engineering: Measurements, Evaluations, and Applications of Attractiveness, Springer (→ISBN), page 66:
    The colors of comparison targets were red, yellow-red, yellow-green, green, blue-green, blue, blue-purple, purple, red-purple, gray, black, and brown. [] of both hierarchical clustering and decision tree analyses, we selected seven colors, such as yellow-red and yellow-green.