If you wanted to use the analogous colors blue, blue-green, and green with Boutet's color wheel on the left, you wouldn't be able to. For example, by some definitions, it would be impossible to use Goethe's color wheel for analogous colors, because they do not share a common color, such as blue-green. Analogous color differ depending on the color wheel used. This color scheme strength comes to the fact that it lacks contrast as in comparison to its counterpart, the complementary schemes. The term analogous refers to having analogy, or corresponding to something in particular. Red, orange, and red-orange are examples. In color theory, analogous colors are groups of colors that are next to each other on the color wheel. ( May 2015) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations.