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The practical book of furnishing the small house and apartment (1922)

Holloway, Edward Stratton · Philadelphia, London, J.B. Lippincott company · leaf 56

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THE PRACTICAL USE OF COLOUR 41 Still lighter and quieter are the Tints, composed largelyof white with but a small admixture of colour and often someblack (black and white, properly speaking, are not colours).These are the greys, fawns, creams, etc. Where clear in tonethey are very beautiful, and,… … Diagram i.—The Six Primary and Secondary ColoursComplementaries shown by following the dotted lines We have already arrived at the means of securing onesort of harmony and contrast—that afforded by the qualityof intensity in colour. It is plain that if in a room we usetones which do not greatly…

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