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Red-Green-Blue (RGB) is a color model that represents colors as mixtures of three underlying components (or channels), namely: red , green , and blue. This model describes a color with a sequence of three numbers (typically between 0.0 and 1.0, or between 0 and 255). Each number represents the primary colors' different intensities (or contributions) in determining the final color. An RGB value by itself has no meaning. It's the color model that defines how the three components interact within a color space to define a color. Graphically, a point in a three-dimensional grid or cube represents a color. Each dimension (or axis) corresponds to a different channel. The RGB color model is then a cubic , or Cartesian , coordinate system of the underlying color space. The RGB color model as a cube with red, blue, and green axes For the web, the underlying color space for an RGB value is sRGB (Standard RGB), and each RGB component is a number between 0 and 1. Note that sRGB is one of several RGB color spaces. Other RGB color spaces, like the Adobe RGB color space, can represent a wider gamut of color than the sRGB color space. The coordinates in sRGB and Adobe RGB are different. There are many ways to describe the RGB components of a color. In CSS, they can be represented in various ways: in hexadecimal notation as a single 24-bit integer (for example, #add8e6 is light blue) or in functional notation by using rgb() with three percent values or numbers ranging from 0 to 255 (for example, rgb(46 139 87) is green). CSS also supports the srgb, srgb-linear, a98-rgb, and prophoto-rgb color spaces for the color() function. RGB is not the only color model that can represent the sRGB color space. Cylindrical coordinate systems like the HSL (hue-saturation-lightness) or HWB (hue-whiteness-blackness) color models are also used to represent an sRGB color on the web.

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