Definition of Colour scheme

1. Noun. A planned combination of colors. "The color scheme for this room was determined by an interior decorator"

Exact synonyms: Color Scheme
Generic synonyms: Combination

Definition of Colour scheme

1. Noun. a colourway ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Colour Scheme

colour charge
colour charges
colour code
colour codes
colour constancy
colour force
colour forces
colour in
colour line
colour match
colour of law
colour perception
colour radical
colour retention agent
colour scheme
colour schemes
colour scotoma
colour sense
colour sergeant
colour sergeants
colour solid
colour spectrum
colour supplement
colour taste
colour television
colour television system
colour television tube
colour therapy
colour triangle

Literary usage of Colour scheme

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Catalogue of the Exhibition of Paintings of Hokusai by Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (1901)
"... of the gay light tones of 1819 ; third, the general shifting of the whole colour scheme from orange-red and blue-green to yellow and blue-black. ..."

2. The Art of Interior Decoration by Grace Wood, Emily Burbank (1919)
"A room of this character would be utterly spoiled by introducing white as ornaments, table covers, window curtains or picture-mats; it is a colour scheme of ..."

3. The Challenge of the Universe: A Popular Restatement of the Argument from Design by Charles John Shebbeare (1918)
"Is the beauty of the landscape a parallel case to the various examples of accidental beauty already given? We call the chance-formed colour-scheme on the ..."

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