This seems a good idea so you dont have to sit and work out all those hex colour values for your website HTML or other scripting languages.
http://gotomy.com/color.html
Anything to save some work , clicking on the named colours will show that colour in the background too
For those of you wondering how it all works its simply a matter of remembering that the codes are 2 digits, each for Red ,Green and Blue
like this [RRGGBB] and that they are in hexadecimal (00 to FF)
By mixing the different amounts of R,G,B any colours required can be generated for example [000000] is black and [FFFFFF] is white ,
while a code like [FF0000] will be red , and [FF00FF] wil be a mixture of red+blue = a shade of purple/mauve .
If you look at the colours in the chart you can see how adjusting the different quantities gives the full spectrum.
For those wondering about hexadecimal its a counting system that goes up to 16 rather than ten (yeah I know it sounds funny )
In this system you have the normal 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, then comes the difference A,B,C,D,E,F, 10 (so A=10 in decimal and h10 = 16 in decimal), its normal procedure to place an h next to a set of hexadecimal numbers to avoid confusion,
How do we count above 16 you ask ? Thats easy you just add another digit to the left column each time you get more than 15 (hF or h0F) , we already went to double digits with h10 , following this pattern you can get up to 256 values for just 2 digits (FF=255), and for those saying thats 255 and not 256 remember zero
Colour Selection Chart
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...Of course for the ultra lazy among you this little tool will tell you the colour of any item you place the mouse pointer on
http://www.nattyware.com/bin/pixie.zip
http://www.nattyware.com/bin/pixie.zip
Its completely free and does a great job showing the different values for the different colour systems in use (yes theres more than one ).Pixie is an easy-to-use, fast and tiny utility designed especially to fit the needs of Webmasters and Designers. Its a colour picker that includes a mouse tracker. Run it, simply point to a colour and it will tell you the hex, RGB, HTML, CMYK and HSV values of that colour. You can then use these values to reproduce the selected colour in your favorite programs. Pixie will also show the current x y position of your mouse pointer. Its the only tool you'll need for working with colours.