Color Palette
Despite varying bit depths in CGA's graphics mode (see below), CGA processes colors in its palette in four bits, yielding 24 = 16 different colors. The four color bits are arranged according to the RGBI color model: The lower three bits represent red, green, and blue color components; a fourth "intensifier" bit increases the brightness of all three color components (red, green, and blue) of the pixels it is set for.
| Full CGA 16-color palette | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | black #000000 |
8 | gray #555555 |
| 1 | blue #0000AA |
9 | light blue #5555FF |
| 2 | green #00AA00 |
10 | light green #55FF55 |
| 3 | cyan #00AAAA |
11 | light cyan #55FFFF |
| 4 | red #AA0000 |
12 | light red #FF5555 |
| 5 | magenta #AA00AA |
13 | light magenta #FF55FF |
| 6 | brown #AA5500 |
14 | yellow #FFFF55 |
| 7 | light gray #AAAAAA |
15 | white (high intensity) #FFFFFF |
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