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Pycairo RGB Colors

Explore how to define colors in Pycairo by setting RGB values from 0.0 to 1.0. Understand primary and secondary colors, their formation, and the subtractive color model important for printing. Gain practical knowledge of creating a range of colors for your vector graphics projects.

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This is how we set an RGB color in Pycairo:

ctx.set_source_rgb(r, g, b)

Here, ctx is the context and r, g, and b control the amount of red, green, and blue in the color. Each color value is a float between 0.0 and 1.0, where 0.0 represents none of that particular color and 1.0 represents the maximum amount of that color. Every possible color in Pycairo is represented by some combination of red, green, and blue.

Primary colors

The primary colors are formed when only one of the RGB colors is present. In other words, pure primary ...