RGB

RGB is an abbreviation for Red, Green and Blue. It is used for representing colors through digital devices like TV screens, monitors and Projectors.

• Each on of them is represented by the combination of three numbers.
• In RGB each color can be represented numerically in 256 different ways.
• When someone talks about an RGB color it describes a mixing of Red, Green and Blue colors.

On a screen you begin with dark foundation and by adding light you get colors.

• RGB is called additive color mix.
• All colors begin with black to which different colors of lights are added to produce colors.
• 16 million colors can be made by different RGB combinations.

Those 16 million colors are reduced to 216 colors for the purpose of web page creation.

• All browser safe, two digit HEX color codes fall in range : 00, 33, 66, 99, CC, FF HEX(0, 51, 102, 153, 204, 255 decimal).
• #FE6136 is not browser safe and #FF6633 is a browser safe color.
• RGB is not used for printing on a paper. Color printers cannot print yellow.

Example of RGB :

RGB color change aqua set