HEX Colors and Web Design

The Hexadecimal Codes uses a combination of letters A - F and numerals 0 - 9 to display colors. Newer browsers can display colors using the 16 color words.
Specify colors by using hexadecimal numbers of each part of Red, Green, and Blue.The RGB uses six digits for each color.  See chart of Web Safe Colors

Red Green Blue Percentage of Color Brightness
FFFFFFFull Brightness
CCCCCC80% Brightness
99999960% Brightness
66666640% Brightness
33333320% Brightness
000000None of this color


Text and Link Color Attributes- See CSS Rules


Current Browsers 16 Color Words

aqua 00ffff black 000000 blue 0000ff fuchsia ff00ff
gray 808080 green 008800 lime00ff00 maroon 800000
navy 000080 olive 808000 purple 800080 red ff0000
silver c0c0c0 teal 008080 whiteffffff yellow ffff00


Web Design with XHTML Part II
Prince George's Community College
Doris Cuffey, Instructor