Help with Color

From Gumnickopedia

Need help specifying colors for text, table cells, backgrounds, etc.? Check out the VisiBone Webmaster’s Color Lab. This helpful site shows all of the “web-safe” colors, and you can build a palette of swatches to see how various colors look together. And for each color, VisiBone gives the hexadecimal value, which you can use to create colored borders for your quotations.

“Hexadecimal value” is a string of six letters and/or numerals that indicate the amounts of red, green, and blue light that make up a particular color on a computer screen. Each hex value is actually a set of three base-16 numbers referring to red, green, and blue. You don’t have to know how to count in base 16. You just have to know that anywhere that a color value is called for, it takes the form #RRGGBB.

Some colors can also be specified by a system of standardized names. On the W3 Schools HTML Color Names page, you’ll find a table of color names that are supported by most browsers. But be aware that only 16 color names are supported by the W3C HTML 4.0 standard (aqua, black, blue, fuchsia, gray, green, lime, maroon, navy, olive, purple, red, silver, teal, white, and yellow), so for consistent results across all browsers, you’re better off using the hexadecimal value.