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Re: color orange

From: Ann Navarro <ann@webgeek.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 09:35:57 -0400
Message-Id: <4.1.19990827093457.0419c800@mail.webgeek.com>
To: "jonathan chetwynd" <jay@peepo.com>, "jonathan chetwynd" <jay@peepo.com>, "Kynn Bartlett" <kynn-hwg@idyllmtn.com>, "Leonard R. Kasday" <kasday@acm.org>
Cc: <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org> 
At 09:27 PM 8/25/99 +0100, jonathan chetwynd wrote:
>Members interested in exploring the nature of additive color could try the
>following experiment.

It's important to remember that color on a computer is *not* additive, as
one of our colleagues explained earlier. It's subtractive. (White starts at
a value of 255, 255, 255 (RGB values), and you subtract to create color). 

Ann
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