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Color combination is mainly an aspect of color syntax. To combine means to put one thing in relation to another, or several things together, so that the individuals lose significance and the meaning of the whole predominates. To combine also means to organize an ordered sequence. In some cases it acquires the sense of mixing or merging. However, mixing color pigments or lights normally yields just one color as the result of the mixture, and in this sense it cannot be termed a color combination, for which two or more colors in some relation must be perceived. Combination certainly is very closely connected to harmonization and coordination. Color combination, thus, is meant whenever there is more than one color associated, related, or harmonized with another: two colors already determine a certain kind of combination.
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Caivano, J.L. (2015). Color Combination. In: Luo, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Color Science and Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27851-8_226-2
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