Simple ways to learn web designing colour codes
By shyampc
@shyampc (150)
India
December 17, 2006 4:05am CST
Are there any ways to study all the colour codes used for web designing and keep it in mind with simple tips? I want to know if there are some websites that help to learn the colour codes easily.
2 responses
@Sportello (97)
• Italy
17 Dec 06
The colours are often represented by a 24bit code, in the RGB format. RGB stands for R=Red, G=Green, B=Blue, each of these 3 components is represented by a 8 bit value, it means you can give each component a value from 0 to 255, where 0 is no color and 255 the full-intensity. Remember RGB is an additive model, so all 0-value components means black, wherever all full'intensity components give you white. Usually the color values are written in hexadecimal format so you can see 6 digits ranging from 0 to F (A stands for 10, B=11,C=12,D=13,E=14,F=15). The first 2 digits represent the RED value, the second two represent the GREEN and the last two the BLUE. You can then combine the three components to get up to 16 million colors.
Some examples:
000000= black
FFFFFF= white
FF0000= red
00FF00= green
0000FF= blue
FFFF00= yellow
FF00FF= magenta
00FFFF= cyan
@Sportello (97)
• Italy
17 Dec 06
You can also give a look to this: http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com/colourchart.png
@axe_effect (799)
• Philippines
17 Dec 06
well, as far as i can remember my computer science subject and engineering subject, the black is 000000 and white is ffffff the codes are 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ,6, 7, 8, 9,A, B, C, D, E, F. mix them all together and it will give a color.