
88 Web Cartography: Map Design for Interactive and Mobile Devices
cornucopia of color options, achromatic color schemes can be quite powerful
and dramatic on Web maps as users expect lots of color and do not nd it.
Complementary Colors
Complementary color schemes are those that make use of any two colors that
are directly across from one another on the color wheel (see Figure5.7). This
includes these colors’ tints and shades (i.e., manipulations of their values).
Importantly, when complementary colors are placed next to or on top of one
another, both of their saturations naturally increase. They will often start to
visually vibrate. This leads ...