RGB

RGB

Red, Green, Blue. The three primary colours which together make white.

Shown using their respective colours: Red, Green and Blue.

When displaying colour on computer monitors (or TVs and projectors) colour values are made up of combinations of red, green and blue. Any colour can be represented by the correct proportion of red, green and blue.

cf CMYK.

For more information see:

• www.cryer.co.uk/resources/javascript/html2.htm - What colour names are supported in HTML. Article lists the RGB components of common web-colours and provides a tool for selecting colours by colour number.