The Red, Green, Blue Palate

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The three colors, Red, Green, and Blue, are very important to our discussion about web page color. To create all the other colors which you see on a monitor, the monitor illuminates adjacent phosphors of different color and to different degrees of brightness.

By varying the proportions of Red, Green, and Blue, you can create any color visible to the human eye. Each color is controlled by a separate gun at the rear of the monitor. This "gun" receives its signal from the computer. Each gun is governed separately, and their orders travel from the computer to the monitor along separate wires. If a peg is bent in the monitor plug, a screen may appear yellow, magenta or cyan.

Red off	Green off	Blue off	Natural color