HTML Colours

[holmedwa04]

Hi,As most of you already probaly know, when writting a colour you can use the colour name, or a hex value, I have listed the colour names that you can use below:Black,Sliver,Gray US spelling,White,Maroon,Red,Purple,Fuchsia,Green,Lime,Olive,Yellow,Navy,Blue,Teal,Aqua,* Lightblue,* Lightyellow,* Lightgreen,* Pink.* Not always accepted by some browsers.Then obviouly you have the Hex value (256 I think).Link Here to a table of the colours with RGB values as well, the username is: buildmysite, and the password is: now.So here comes my question, why can you use any colour you like if you get the hex number of an image program? Is it because the 256 colours are websafe or something?

[Jack McKalling]

Exactly :)You can use this as a good reference and explanation about them and what exactly is the issue here: http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutorials/colors/

[holmedwa04]

Am I best just using the web safe colours then?

[Jack McKalling]

You can use hexcodes safely With only those "safe colours" you can't really choose nice colours out of so little amount. But it is up to you You can use anything you want, only not all colours (might) look exactly the same in all browsers.

[holmedwa04]

You can use hexcodes safely With only those "safe colours" you can't really choose nice colours out of so little amount. But it is up to you You can use anything you want, only not all colours (might) look exactly the same in all browsers.

So, if I dont use the websafe colours will they perhaps appear dithered?I dont usually use other than websafe colours, its just for one site template that I have made.

[Jack McKalling]

Yes Though I am not an expert at dithering, that would be the case yes

[holmedwa04]

Ok, thanks thats all really.

[Jack McKalling]

You're welcome Ask anything you want to know.

[justsomeguy]

So, if I dont use the websafe colours will they perhaps appear dithered?I dont usually use other than websafe colours, its just for one site template that I have made.

I haven't seen this issue for several years. It used to be an issue when people had 8-bit or sometimes 16-bit color displays, but the vast majority of users these days have at least 24-bit displays that will display any hex value correctly.

[Jack McKalling]

Thanks for mentioning that, I wasn't sure about it

[Jonas]

Brown, Yellow, White, Red, Blue, Green, Orange, Gray, Magenta, Lime, Pink, Purple, Dark Blue, Aqua Marine, Royal Blue, Dark Red, Dark Turquoise, Turquoise, Dark Khaki, Sky Blue, Maroon, Tan, Ivory, Cyan, Gold, Plum, Light Coral, Indian Red, Firebrick, Silver, Alice Blue, Lightslate Gray, Light Blue, Aqua, Maroon, Navy, Teal, Indigo, Antique White, Blue Violet, Cadet Blue, Chartreuse, Chocolate, Cornflower Blue, Crimson, Dark Orchid, Salmon, Deep Pink, Dodger Blue, Fuchsia, Dark Salmon, Gold, Green Yellow, Olive, Peru, Saddle Brown, Tan, TomatoAll those are colour names you can use... If you can't read what it says because of contrast, highlight the word with your mouse. If it's a two-word color, write them in one word.

[aspnetguy]

you can use steelblue

[Jack McKalling]

The links I supplied explained that, and gave even a scheme for grey and red teints And an explanation about "dithering" and "safe colors"

[reportingsjr]

Hex HubThat has a list of literally thousands of hex codes, plus the have what each one looks like next to the code.. I always use this when using hex, and I never use words, always hex!

[Jack McKalling]

I also always use hexcodes, but with that explanation of http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutorials/colors/ I now understand how those hexcodes work. So I don't have to use a page that sommuns all hex colors It is very handy to know how they work, it is like the rgb() values.

[holmedwa04]

Thanks for mentioning that, I wasn't sure about it

Wow, that is seriously cool, I never knew that there were that many different colours you could use, the ones that I listed were from a HTML book that I have got but from reading it, I think that it was last printed in 2000, and so it might not be up to date.But I will certainly use those other ones, I mainly use just hexcodes but they are cool!

[justsomeguy]

Wow, that is seriously cool, I never knew that there were that many different colours you could use

There are over 16.7 million colors you can use! Anything from 0x000000 to 0xFFFFFF. In hex, FF is 255, so you can use values from 0-255 for each RGB: #RRGGBB.

[Jack McKalling]

255 meaning the full color, which makes white instead of black in real life. And 0 means no color leaving black (which is in real life just white) What a mess ey?

[justsomeguy]

It's the way different media uses colors. With print media or mixing paint, white is the absence of color and black is every color. The more colors you mix together, the darker the color gets. Any kid with a set of watercolors can tell you that. With light (such as computer monitors), it is the reverse. The absence of color is black, and every color being mixed is white. White on a screen is all colors being shown maximum. The more colors you add to the light, the brighter the light gets. You can see it for yourself with a prism. If you shine light through a prism, it gets separated into the different wavelengths and you can see all of the colors that make it up.

[Jack McKalling]

I know , you don't have to explain me I may not be clear though, so its fine.

[holmedwa04]

Yeh, that is really quite a good way of explaining it, I have never thought of it like that! Lol