What Is The Complimentary Color For Yellowish Orange?

[PumpkinOrange]

They say blue is the complimentary color for orange but what about yellowish orange? Coz when I viewed my vivid yellowish orange diamond against a blue ray light it looks red orange.

 

[kenny]

A complimentary color is located on the opposite side of the color wheel, or 180 degrees away.



On the color wheel 180 degrees away from Yellow Orange is Blue Violet.
But Yellowish Orange is closer to Orange than Yellow Orange is. (moving a bit CCW on the above wheel)

So 180 degrees from Yellowish Orange is Violet-ish Blue ... a stratospherically expensive and rare hue in fully natural FCDs.
Time to rob a bank for an Argyle Tender FCD if there are any left from the mine that's running dry.

Welcome to the maddening world of FCDs.

 

[PumpkinOrange]

A complimentary color is located on the opposite side of the color wheel, or 180 degrees away.



On the color wheel 180 degrees away from Yellow Orange is Blue Violet.
But Yellowish Orange is closer to Orange than Yellow Orange is. (moving a bit CCW on the above wheel)

So 180 degrees from Yellowish Orange is Violet-ish Blue ... a stratospherically expensive and rare hue in fully natural FCDs.
Time to rob a bank for an Argyle Tender FCD.

Welcome to the maddening world of FCDs.

Thanks Kenny! I thought bluish violet is the complimentary color for yellowish orange. That picture I used as a wallpaper in my phone and I used the light reflection of that picture to look into my vivid yellowish orange diamond & it looks not red orange anymore but a bright glowing orange. It does really make the yellowish orange look their best. I think the color of this picture is bluish violet.

I don't know if there's a violetish blue light bulb available I can use in my home to make my orange diamonds look their best. Also I could also add bluish violet amethyst or spinels into the ring this vivid yellowish orange diamond is mounted.

What color exactly are violetish blue & bluish violet?

 

[kenny]

Tiny nit pick.
Your FCD's compliment is Violetish Blue, not Bluish Violet.
There's a difference.
The later has more Violet, the former more Blue.

Here's how GIA grades color when more than one hue is present ...
The last hue listed appears strongest, and the first appears weakest.
If 3 hues are mentioned the same is true.

Next, a hue followed by 'ish' means less of that hue than without the 'ish'.
The following are listed in order of increasing strength of the Green component:
Greenish Blue
Green Blue
Blue Green
Bluish Green
Green (of course having no blue)

I suspect an FCD that GIA graded fully natural and Violetish Blue would be very pricey, especially if there is none of that pesky gray in it.

 

[PumpkinOrange]

Tiny nit pick.
Your FCD's compliment is Violetish Blue, not Bluish Violet.
There's a difference.
The later has more Violet, the former more Blue.

Here's how GIA grades color when more than one hue is present ...
The last hue listed appears strongest, and the first appears weakest.
If 3 hues are mentioned the same is true.

Next, a hue followed by 'ish' means less of that hue than without the 'ish'.
The following are listed in order of increasing strength of the Green component:
Greenish Blue
Green Blue
Blue Green
Bluish Green
Green (of course having no blue)

I suspect an FCD that GIA graded fully natural and Violetish Blue would be very pricey, especially if there is none of that pesky gray in it.

Thanks Kenny! Could you post a picture of what a violetish blue color is? I don't mean a violetish blue diamond but the color actually.

 

[kenny]

https://www.pantone.com/color-finder

Even better than me posting a color: Pantone has this cool color finder tool.
Put your cursor over the area that looks between blue and violet, click then click Submit.

You'll get a whole page of several hues close to your target.

 

[valeria101]

I doubt you could match the intensity of orange in the blue range of diamond colours ...

Vivid never seems to mean the same thing for orange as for blue WWW ...

Opinion: I's match a very dark tinted gray against a fine orange, simply because dark gray / transparent black works with orange WWW - at least in my mind, that is. This radiant WWW comes closest to the type of material I am thinking of.

2C


Ps.
A deep purple WWW may be possible ! Not close. Not far.

 

[kenny]

I doubt you could match the intensity of orange in the blue range of diamond colours ...

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Very true.

GIA's saturation/tone grades take into account what nature mostly provides us in the various hues.
There are exceptions but blues are usually among the most pale of hues for their GIA grade.
I've seen GIA give a Fancy Intense grade to Blues with so little color they'd be Fancy or Fancy Lights in some other hues.

 

[valeria101]

There never was a transparent black in your collection, right ?

I was just thinking of how improbable the Dark range of tones (asuming top clarity), is in the relevant weight !


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Pt. there were two Fancy Dark / IF at the same source as this mere 'fancy' some time ago - but larger.

 

[kenny]

No Black, Gray, or Fancy White, only colored.
Does that make me racist?

 

[valeria101]

Never heard of mineral races - yet.

 

[PumpkinOrange]

No Black, Gray, or Fancy White, only colored.
Does that make me racist?

You also don't have brown. Haha

Anyway this is the easiest violetish blue I've found...

 

[PumpkinOrange]

I doubt you could match the intensity of orange in the blue range of diamond colours ...

Vivid never seems to mean the same thing for orange as for blue WWW ...

Opinion: I's match a very dark tinted gray against a fine orange, simply because dark gray / transparent black works with orange WWW - at least in my mind, that is. This radiant WWW comes closest to the type of material I am thinking of.

2C


Ps.
A deep purple WWW may be possible ! Not close. Not far.

So a vivid orange will look stronger than a vivid blue?

 

[valeria101]

Yes.

 

[valeria101]

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Take a look: 'Dark Gray Blue' appears violet ... It could be so in person IHMO.

Would expect a spectacular price.