How to Build a Website
Color Chart
by Craig Walker

I borrowed this chart from this website, which is an excellent tutorial on HTML.

HTML RGB Color Chart
Of the standard 256-color VGA palette, Web browsers can accurately display only 216 colors without dithering (approximating the specified color using pixels in colors that the computer can display). Here is a table showing those colors, with the appropriate RRGGBB designations. The 216 non-dithering colors are in the center; the side columns are for reference.


Thanks to Doug Jacobson for the color chart.


You can specify colors in two ways. You can use the six digit codes we have been using, or you can use the short list of general color names. There is one problem with this though. Not all browsers will interpret these codes correctly. If you see the different colors, as written below, then your browser is cool, but what about everyone else's. The Colors are:

Example: <FONT SIZE=4 COLOR=RED>

I prefer to use the six digit codes because of the more precise selection of the color you want to use. The text color, dark dark blue, on this page would not be possible with the word codes.

by Craig Walker

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