| Check this out! I've created some tiles and put them all together at Marianne's Tiles for your tiling pleasure. Please drop by and take a look. |
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Page One: Pastel tones - pink to yellow Page Two: Pastel tones - lavender, moss green, rust Page Three: Darker pastel tones - blue, green, gold Page Four: Rainbow colors Page Five: Grey, brown, orange, and flesh tones Page Six: Gem tones - lapis lazuli, amethyst, garnet Page Seven: Gem tones - aquamarine, emerald, jade Page Eight: Colors by name, not code If you've just gotta know more about hex codes and HTML colors, check out "A Quick Color Explanation" at HTML Goodies. He's explained it about as clearly as anyone I've read. So, click here and get educated! One more thing! I've added an asterisk (*) to all the non-dithering, web-safe color codes, just so you know which ones they are. These are the colors that show up the same on every computer no matter what (or so I've been told). Give Me Feedback or Add My Link! |
What I've got here are almost two thousand colors using hex codes. I hope they will be useful to anyone who is struggling to find that perfect or complimentary color to use at their web site. Now, from what I understand, not all browsers can read all colors, so please preview the colors you choose to make sure that they have "translated" properly to your browser. I don't claim to be an expert at this but I've enjoyed playing with the hex codes and coming up with the variety of colors that I have. |
Why not use a color picker? Well, you could make it easy on yourself and use Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro. Many software tools will give you the color component values as well as the hex code, but in case you don't have these tools, I hope my codes and the hexadecimal chart below will be useful when tweaking your colors ever just so. |
What is a hexadecimal system? It's a number system based on 16 instead of 10 as our regular number system is. In this way we can accomodate large coded numbers using only six digits and thus create a wide variety of colors. How many colors? I started to calculate that out, but hmm...math was never my strong suit, so let's just say it's a LOT!! I think publishing the number has generated more email to me than anything else at this site, so I'm gonna let it go at that! Hehe! |
| The hexadecimal color codes are arranged by a color's red, green and blue color components. These components are arranged like this: #rrggbb to make up the hex code for any color. By using a color picker tool, you can find out the numeric color values of any color. Find the hexadecimal equivalents on the chart below, put them in the rrggbb order and you've assembled a hex code for that color! |
| Below is a table of color value numbers and their hexadecimal equivalents. |
| Hexadecimal equivalents to the numbers 0-255 | |||||||||||||||
| # 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 | Hex 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1A 1B 1C 1D 1E 1F | # 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 | Hex 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 2A 2B 2C 2D 2E 2F 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 3A 3B 3C 3D 3E 3F | # 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 | Hex 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 4A 4B 4C 4D 4E 4F 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 5A 5B 5C 5D 5E 5F | # 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 | Hex 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 6A 6B 6C 6D 6E 6F 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 7A 7B 7C 7D 7E 7F | # 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 | Hex 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 8A 8B 8C 8D 8E 8F 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 9A 9B 9C 9D 9E 9F | # 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 | Hex A0 A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A7 A8 A9 AA AB AC AD AE AF B0 B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7 B8 B9 BA BB BC BD BE BF | # 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 | Hex C0 C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 CA CB CC CD CE CF D0 D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 D6 D7 D8 D9 DA DB DC DD DE DF | # 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 | Hex E0 E1 E2 E3 E4 E5 E6 E7 E8 E9 EA EB EC ED EE EF F0 F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 F7 F8 F9 FA FB FC FD FE FF |