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Title: Can Ducky Shine 4 Produce These Shades of Magenta?
Post by: dman777 on Sat, 14 March 2015, 11:52:58

Are there any color experts out there? Can the Ducky Shine 4 make all these shades of Magenta? Or would the lighter ones require green?

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Title: Re: Can Ducky Shine 4 Produce These Shades of Magenta?
Post by: Daniel Beardsmore on Sat, 14 March 2015, 16:17:35

The colours depicted are (in RGB tuples, captured using Zoom+):

(129,26,116)  (254,140,255)  (255,53,197)
(184,0,131)  (214,78,207)  (255,0,255)
(151,0,103)  (255,174,244)  (189,37,180)

Anything with a middle figure above zero requires green to display on a monitor. However, it gets interesting, because it depends in part on LED intensity — keyboard LEDs can be really bright and you might not need to add white to bring up the intensity (therefore no green required).

Title: Re: Can Ducky Shine 4 Produce These Shades of Magenta?
Post by: falkentyne on Sat, 14 March 2015, 16:50:26

Quote from: dman777 on Sat, 14 March 2015, 11:52:58

Are there any color experts out there? Can the Ducky Shine 4 make all these shades of Magenta? Or would the lighter ones require green?

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No it can't.
It only has red and blue LED.   And 7 brightness levels.   Pink and Magneta tone is only produced on a few steps.