How to get Maroon Color light?? HUE?

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12:45p, 9/5/21

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I'm trying to achieve a maroon color with Phillips hue lights. Anybody know the color mix for this?

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2:39p, 9/5/21

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How technical do you want to get?

Phillips Hue uses a different color space than commonly used RGB / HEX.. One option is to get different bulbs (costing a lot less than Hue bulbs) that can take an RGB or HEX #.

I had a student worker build a custom controller. This is not the cheapest way to go about it. This was a great personal project for my student because he also got an introduction to coding and fabricating something. If you have kids you want to teach some coding to or like to tinker this works. Otherwise, I am not sure.

You could enter exact RGB values and then press the screen and the bulb would change to that color. It is based off of this example: https://learn.adafruit.com/pyportal-philips-hue-lighting-controller?view=all

I would bet there are python scripts or website out there that can do the conventions for you.

I did find something really close to official A&M Maroon, called Web Maroon.

Web Maroon RGB is (127,0,0), just slightly different than official A&M Maroon.

[XY] - Gamut A [0.7,0.2986]

[XY] - Gamut B [0.674,0.322]

[XY] - Gamut C [0.692,0.308]

Official A&M Maroon for display (not for physical printing - printing uses a different color space) is:
HEX 500000
RGB (80,0,0)

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In reply to Koko Chingo • 7:48a, 9/6/21

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This is outstanding way more than I hoped for and I will explore the options.

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7:56a, 9/6/21

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I've never been able to get a maroon color using the hue app.

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4:21p, 9/6/21

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A true maroon light is hard to achieve because it has so much black in it. You'll end up with something between red and purple.

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8:52p, 9/6/21

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Maroon light is just red light. What makes it look maroon is it's darkness relative to other lights that are within view.

If you want maroon light just use a very dim red setting or turn up the ambient white light within view of the red light source.

If your goal is to have the light being cast to look maroon and not just the bulbs, you can't have the adjacent light being cast on the same surfaces so aim the red light into the shadows of the white light.

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9:40p, 9/6/21

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The above two posts nailed it. It's the same reason you can't really create navy. Any color that has a large component of black will be hard to create with lighting. I don't know your scenario, but one way to kind of 'trick' lighting is by the color of the wall/brick/etc you're shining against.

I played around with RGB values (you can do the same in Hue as others have mentioned) to replicate maroon, but it's not real doable.

It's why Kyle Field has never implemented something like this beyond just a rendering.

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