Additive Color System

Monitors and TV

• They produce color based on the additive color system, which involves light emitted directly from a source before an object reflects light.
• A TV screen or computer monitor creates color using the primary colors of light (additive color system ): red, blue and green.
• From these three colors a wide range of colors can be produced.
• Thousands of red, green and blue phosphor dots emit light to make the images seen on monitors.

Primary Colors

• The three primary colors of light are: red, green and blue
• All colors we see are made from these three colors being reflected in different combinations and amounts.
• The primary colors of light are different from the primary subtractive colors of our paints.

Secondary Colors

• Three secondary colors of light are made by combining two primary colors in equal amounts: red + blue = magenta blue + green = cyan red + green = yellow
• Since white light is all colors of light, mixing red + green + blue light = WHITE light
• Mixing the primary pigment colors: yellow, cyan and magenta = black