Color RGB

Overview

The most basic color node, creating and supplying a single color. Keeping a color in its own node lets you route it: distribute the same color to multiple nodes or animate individual channels.

Usage tips

• When the same color is used in several places—line, fill, glow, and so on—distribute it from this node so one edit updates them all.
• R/G/B/A can be exposed as input pins with 📌. Connect waveforms to animate the color. For blinking, damage flashes, or rotating a neon hue, H in color_hsv is convenient.
• Connect the palette input to choose a color from a palette instead of the picker.
• If you prefer choosing by color qualities, the sibling nodes color_hsv (hue, saturation, value) and color_oklch (perceptually uniform) serve the same role. All three output the same Color type.

Common pitfalls

• Why use this node when color parameters are available everywhere?: a parameter is enough for a one-off color. Promote it to this node when you need to share, animate, or turn it into a variable.
• Value units: the UI uses 0–255 (0–100% for A), while values are normalized to 0–1 internally and on wires.

Technical details

• Two-way synchronization between the color picker and R/G/B/A sliders
• Change the color in the picker → R/G/B/A update automatically
• Change an R/G/B/A slider → the picker swatch updates automatically
• With no Color wire connected, R/G/B/A are authoritative at evaluation time. Picker edits update those channels in the UI.
• While using an indexed-color reference, palette edits update R/G/B/A and the output. Manually editing a channel detaches the reference and switches to the current literal color.
• Internal processing converts 0–255 to 0.0–1.0 and outputs the Color type.
• When the Color parameter is exposed with 📌 and connected, that external Color overrides R/G/B/A.

Examples

• Choose a pixel-art color visually
• Connect animation nodes to the R/G/B channels to animate the color
• Connect a palette and choose a color from it

Related nodes

• color_hsv / color_oklch — sibling nodes for choosing in other color spaces
• palette_get — choose by palette index
• solid_color — the go-to destination for turning a color into an image