# Make colors transparent using the "Color Fading" extension

**URL:** <https://forum.makecode.com/t/make-colors-transparent-using-the-color-fading-extension/37989>\
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**Created:** [July 10, 2025, 6:35pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/make-colors-transparent-using-the-color-fading-extension/37989 "2025-07-10T18:35:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![BobAJoeJoe](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/bobajoejoe/32/21776_2.png) [@BobAJoeJoe](https://forum.makecode.com/u/BobAJoeJoe)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2025, 6:35pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/make-colors-transparent-using-the-color-fading-extension/37989/1 "2025-07-10T18:35:09Z")

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How do I make colors transparent using the Color Fading extension, if at all possible.

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**Author:** ![mmurray1019](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/mmurray1019/32/23334_2.png) [@mmurray1019](https://forum.makecode.com/u/mmurray1019)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2025, 6:56pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/make-colors-transparent-using-the-color-fading-extension/37989/2 "2025-07-10T18:56:47Z")

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as far as I know, it is impossible. You would need RGBA or HSVA, and it only allows RGB and HSV.

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**Author:** ![WoofWoof](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.makecode.com/woofwoof/32/32523_2.png) [@WoofWoof](https://forum.makecode.com/u/WoofWoof)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2025, 10:51pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/make-colors-transparent-using-the-color-fading-extension/37989/3 "2025-07-10T22:51:18Z")

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The trick would be to create other colors that _pretend_ to be clear and would show up when a “transparent” color was on top of a non-transparent color. Because only 16 colors can be displayed at once in Makecode, this would limit your base palette quite a bit, as most of it would be taken up by these in-between-color colors, unless you were very creative in your palette choice. You would also have to create your own code for rendering these in between colors when a transparent pixel was “on top” of a normal one. I’ll say that this is 100% possible, as this “in between color” thing has been done in the lantern extension.