Complementary colors

Quality:

Complementary colors - pairs of colors which, when combined, cancel each other out. Article “Complementary colors” in English Wikipedia has 52.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 20 references and 13 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 5.85 points.

This article has the best quality in Finnish Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2025 the article “Complementary colors” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Complementary colors”, its content was written by 293 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1018 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 391 times in English Wikipedia and cited 1906 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #5156 in December 2003
• Global: #5419 in November 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #12049 in October 2013
• Global: #8886 in November 2009

There are 29 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Finnish (fi) Vastaväri		53.6
2	English (en) Complementary colors		52.6663
3	German (de) Komplementärfarbe		44.1016
4	Hungarian (hu) Kiegészítő színpárok		35.0883
5	Malay (ms) Warna pelengkap		32.4437
6	French (fr) Couleur complémentaire		31.224
7	Polish (pl) Barwy dopełniające		29.1957
8	Chinese (zh) 互補色		27.5163
9	Arabic (ar) ألوان مكملة		27.2153
10	Croatian (hr) Komplementarne boje		26.5559

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Complementary colors		7 000 506
2	Spanish (es) Colores complementarios		3 280 784
3	German (de) Komplementärfarbe		3 032 272
4	Japanese (ja) 補色		1 799 226
5	French (fr) Couleur complémentaire		1 210 882
6	Italian (it) Colori complementari		964 200
7	Portuguese (pt) Cores complementares		732 462
8	Chinese (zh) 互補色		663 458
9	Persian (fa) رنگ مکمل		437 839
10	Dutch (nl) Complementaire kleur		435 880

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Complementary colors		12 679
2	German (de) Komplementärfarbe		5 676
3	Chinese (zh) 互補色		2 682
4	Japanese (ja) 補色		2 454
5	Spanish (es) Colores complementarios		2 133
6	French (fr) Couleur complémentaire		1 599
7	Russian (ru) Дополнительные цвета		871
8	Italian (it) Colori complementari		843
9	Simple English (simple) Complementary color		528
10	Persian (fa) رنگ مکمل		380

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Complementary colors		293
2	German (de) Komplementärfarbe		134
3	French (fr) Couleur complémentaire		60
4	Spanish (es) Colores complementarios		59
5	Italian (it) Colori complementari		49
6	Dutch (nl) Complementaire kleur		43
7	Hungarian (hu) Kiegészítő színpárok		42
8	Norwegian (no) Komplementærfarge		41
9	Russian (ru) Дополнительные цвета		37
10	Polish (pl) Barwy dopełniające		32

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Complementary colors		1
2	Arabic (ar) ألوان مكملة		0
3	Catalan (ca) Colors complementaris		0
4	German (de) Komplementärfarbe		0
5	Spanish (es) Colores complementarios		0
6	Estonian (et) Komplementaarvärvus		0
7	Persian (fa) رنگ مکمل		0
8	Finnish (fi) Vastaväri		0
9	French (fr) Couleur complémentaire		0
10	Hebrew (he) צבעים משלימים		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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