Your Question: What Colors Can You Make with Rgb?
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The RGB color system is one of the most well-known color systems in the world, and perhaps the most ubiquitous. As an additive color system, it combines red, green, and blue light to create the colors we see on our TV screens, computer monitors, and smartphones.

Can you make any color with RGB?

By mixing light of these 3 base colors, you could create any color perception. But such a color set does not exist. RGB does a pretty good job of covering a large part of the color gamut, but not all (RGB fails at saturated cyan and yellow, for example).

What colors can RGB not make?

You could pick any three colors you like – perhaps yellow, cyan, and purple – but they wouldn’t be able to produce as wide a range of colors as an RGB set. (And that’s really the only thing “special” about red, green, and blue.

Alexander Ross

Alexander Ross

Gaming, Esports & Interactive Media Writer

Alexander Ross has covered the video game industry for a decade, writing deep dives on game design, esports tournaments, VR developments, and gaming culture.

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