What Colors Make White?

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In paint

You can't mix paint colors together to create white. Paint mixing is subtractive, each color you add removes reflected light, so combining colors only gets darker and muddier, never lighter. White has to start as a pigment itself.

In light (RGB)

In light (RGB), it's the opposite: combine red, green, and blue light at full intensity and you get white. This is additive mixing, and it's exactly how a white pixel on a screen works.

This is the clearest example of why paint and light behave like opposites: in paint, all colors combined trend toward black; in light, all colors combined trend toward white.
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What colors make white in paint?

You can't mix paint colors together to create white. Paint mixing is subtractive, each color you add removes reflected light, so combining colors only gets darker and muddier, never lighter. White has to start as a pigment itself.

What colors make white in light (RGB)?

In light (RGB), it's the opposite: combine red, green, and blue light at full intensity and you get white. This is additive mixing, and it's exactly how a white pixel on a screen works.