Glitch palette is high-contrast and electric — black plus saturated green/magenta/cyan and white, with broken color from channel offset on-brand

The glitch color vocabulary is defined by high contrast and electric saturation: black as the base, with neon greens (#00ff9f), magentas (#ff003c), cyans, and white as accents. These are the colors of phosphor displays, error outputs, and broken video signals — historically grounded in the source material. ‘Broken color’ — produced by color-invert, chromatic-aberration (RGB channel offset), and threshold operations — is not incidental but definitional to the style. Unlike the geometric style (monochrome + one accent), glitch actively multiplies color through degradation: a single-channel offset creates RGB fringing that reads as three colors simultaneously. The palette is about instability and high energy, not harmony.

Examples

black (#000000) + electric green (#00ff9f) + magenta (#ff003c) + white (#ffffff). Add chromatic-aberration: the white becomes RGB-split into three offset halos, multiplying the palette through degradation.

Assessment

Describe how chromatic-aberration ‘creates’ additional colors in a glitch palette without adding a new color to the source. Why are the specific hues (neon green, magenta, cyan) appropriate for the glitch aesthetic? Compare to geometric’s palette strategy.