blue-yellow

Primary color pair

Blue-yellow describes a type of color blindness affecting the ability to distinguish blue from yellow.

Someone with blue-yellow color blindness (tritanopia or tritanomaly) confuses these colors or sees them as muted.

The term also appears in color theory discussions about opponent color pairs—blue and yellow being one of the fundamental axes of color perception.

colortheory

complementary

Mutually supplying lacks

secondary · vibrant · opposing · afterimage · color harmony · Bauhaus · color psychology · saturation

sports

Sweden

Scandinavian country, capital Stockholm

Ukraine · club colors · supporters · jersey · kit · fan merchandise · banner · scarf · rivalry · national colors

colorblindness

visual impairment

Uncorrectable seeing deficit

genetic mutation · rod cells · photopigment

signage

warning

Alert about danger

traffic signs · high contrast · road signs · construction zone · wet floor · attention-grabbing · regulatory · reflective · universal design · accessibility

Opposites
color vision axis

blue-yellowred-green

Two-hue vision deficiency

achromatic · black-white · monochromatic · luminance

colorblindness type

blue-yellowred-green

Two-hue vision deficiency

deuteranopia · protanopia

color temperature combination

blue-yellowblue-green

Hue between sky and grass

monochromatic · cool tones · warm tones

Family

blue, yellow, blues, blued, bluing, bluish, bluer, bluest, yellows

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G