Color mixing

Additive

When color is created by mixing lights of various color.

How it affects UI design

Most digital color pickers and tools utilize additive color spaces such as sRGB.

CSS color-mix can approximate mixing methods for various color spaces, including those modeled after additive properties of light. Not all browsers support color-mix.

Sources:

  1. Linda Holtzschue (2017). Understanding color: an introduction for designers. 5th edition. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Pages 19, 221
  2. Bruce MacEvoy. Additive & subtractive color mixing. Handprint.com. https://www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/color5.html#theoryadd
  3. Additive color. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additive_color