Posts Tagged ‘experiments’

Color Wheels with only CSS3 and Primary Colors

Sunday, July 11th, 2010

There are no images above, nothing but css (half of it vendor propriety, sadly), and this was entirely created with primary colors: Red Yellow and Blue. Why? Because I wanted to see how well you could create other colors using additive color mixing methods like you would with paint through overlayed rgba semi-transparent colors. A standard color wheel with secondary and tertiary colors was the obvious test. This works in Firefox, webkit browsers and even, yes, Internet Explorer. Well, the curved edge that makes it a circle doesn’t work in IE. But the semi-transparent color overlays to simulate additive color mixing that I was wondering about? Works like a charm! (more…)