Colour Selection Chart
Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 5:46 pm
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
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
).