Two colours are complementary if lights of those colours add to make pure white light. Complementary colours are not the same as complementary pigments (or paints).
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No, Primary Colours.
A split complementary color set is three colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel, specifically the main color is on one side and the other two secondary colors are on another side so lines between the colors make an isoceles triangle.
blue Actually its purple. If you look at the color wheel for primary colors it is always the color that is mixed by the other two primary colors. For example for red its green (blue and yellow) for blue its orange (red and yellow). So the complementary color for yellow is purple (red and blue).
Black and/or white complement orange very well. In another sense complementary colors are opposite each other on the color wheel. In that sense blue is the complementary color for orange. See link.
No, the complementary color of red is green not yellow because, when placed next to each other, complementary colors make each other appear brighter, more intense. The shadow of an object will also contain its complementary color. Ex.) the shadow of a green apple will contain some red. ......If you look at a color wheel you may understand this a little better