Red, Green, Blue (RGB)

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The additive color primaries (or the three basic components of visible light) that can be combined in pairs to create the secondary colors of cyan, magenta, and yellow, or combined in three equal amounts to produce the color white. In computer graphics, RGB refers to a type of color image display (called an RGB monitor), but RGB computer files must be translated into the CMYK color space in order to be printed on a printing press.