Hex

Development: Emerged from the web development community for compact color representation, with no specific lab or organization involved.
Colors/Units of Measure: Hexadecimal values representing RGB components.
Hardware-Based: No, primarily used in software and web development.
Year of Release: Gained prominence in web development in the 1990s with the rise of the internet.
Founding Institution: No specific institution; developed collaboratively by web developers and software engineers.
Color Theory: Based on the RGB color model.
Color Model: Additive color model.
Total Number of Possible Color Combinations: 16,777,216 (256 levels for each of the three colors).
Primary Colors: Red, Green, Blue.
Secondary Colors: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow.
Tertiary Colors: Various combinations of the primary and secondary colors.