page_title: Color triangle
hierarchical_section_title: Color triangle
caption_attribution_description: Lichtenberg's replication of Tobias Mayer's color triangle
context_page_description: A colour triangle is an arrangement of colours within a triangle, based on the additive combination of three primary colors at its corners.
  An additive colour space defined by three primary colors has a chromaticity gamut that is a color triangle, when the amounts of the primaries are constrained to be nonnegative.
  Before the theory of additive color was proposed by Thomas Young and further developed by James Clerk Maxwell and Hermann von Helmholtz, triangles were also used to organize colors, for example around a system of red, yellow, and blue primary colors.
  After the development of the CIE system, color triangles were used as chromaticity diagrams, including briefly with the trilinear coordinates representing the chromaticity values. Since the sum of the three chromaticity values has a fixed value, it suffices to depict only two of the three values, using Cartesian co-ordinates. In the modern x, y diagram, the large triangle bounded by the imaginary primaries X, Y, and Z has corners, and, respectively; colour triangles with real primaries are often shown within this space.
context_section_description: A colour triangle is an arrangement of colours within a triangle, based on the additive combination of three primary colors at its corners.  
  An additive colour space defined by three primary colors has a chromaticity gamut that is a color triangle, when the amounts of the primaries are constrained to be nonnegative.
  Before the theory of additive color was proposed by Thomas Young and further developed by James Clerk Maxwell and Hermann von Helmholtz, triangles were also used to organize colors, for example around a system of red, yellow, and blue primary colors. 
  After the development of the CIE system, color triangles were used as chromaticity diagrams, including briefly with the trilinear coordinates representing the chromaticity values. Since the sum of the three chromaticity values has a fixed value, it suffices to depict only two of the three values, using Cartesian co-ordinates.  In the modern x,y diagram, the large triangle bounded by the imaginary primaries X, Y, and Z has corners (1,0), (0,1), and (0,0), respectively; colour triangles with real primaries are often shown within this space.
caption: A 1775 color triangle by Tobias Mayer.
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