Colour being the relation between an impression and the impression of colourlessness, and tone being the resultant translation of the intensity of the colour, then it is feasible to reproduce a red and blue combination by a green and yellow combination of equal contrast.
"A Novelist on Novels"
W. L. George
Odo suspected a certain colourlessness in the life she depicted.
"The Valley of Decision"
Edith Wharton
The contrast is perhaps unique as regards the dead colourlessness of the beginning, and the splendid colour of the end.
"A History of English Literature Elizabethan Literature"
George Saintsbury