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Using Named Colors

There are 16 valid colornames that can be used with HTML, shown in the table below. For all other colors, use hex color codes.

Drifter has an excellent Color Picker to help you select your colors.

There is also a list of color tools below the table.



  black = "#000000"   green = "#008000"
  silver = "#C0C0C0"   lime = "#00FF00"
  gray = "#808080"   olive = "#808000"
  white = "#FFFFFF"   yellow = "#FFFF00"
  maroon = "#800000"   navy = "#000080"
  red = "#FF0000"   blue = "#0000FF"
  purple = "#800080"   teal = "#008080"
  fuchsia = "#FF00FF"   aqua = "#00FFFF"


Color Tools
Charts and Lists
Big B's
Ccol
Doc's Pastel Colors
Draac
Firmlist (funny color names)
Gest
Hype's
Marianne's Color Codes
Misty Rains Colors
Pirate Voyager (Scarlet)
PixelSmith
Precious Colors
Rainy Day
Skin Tones Color Chart
Spaceman's Printable Chart
The Professor's List
Cubes
Aurora
ColorMaker Cube
Devilmanozzy's Color Windows
Kira's Web Toolbox
Pirate Voyager (Scarlet)
Peggy
Grabbers
JawjahBoy
Tandem Tables
U-L-T-R-A'S
Webby Color Grabber
Pickers
Colour Selector Page
Drifter's Color Picker
LaMaia's
MSNTV Developer
SitePro Central - Awesome! (PC only)
Miscellaneous
ColorMaker
Color Things and Fonts (Lists)

Happy coding!
Gnubee

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