Rachel's list of Hexadecimal Colors


created Tuesday, 3 June 97

Hexidecimal codes are used for adding colors in HTML:

Page Backgrounds: <body bgcolor="#XXXXXX">
Text Colors: <font color="#XXXXXX">
Page-Wide Text Colors: <body text="#XXXXXX">
Page-Wide Link Colors: <body link="#XXXXXX" vlink="#XXXXXX" alink="#XXXXXX">
link is non-visited link color, vlink is already-visited link color, and alink is the color a link turns while it is being clicked on

Each of the six digits in the hexadecimal code is broken into three groups:
#XXxxxx - Red Color Value
#xxXXxx - Green Color Value
#xxxxXX - Blue Color Value

Each digit is a value from 0 to F.
The hexadecimal color system counts by 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F,
with 0 being the null value, and F being the highest value.

There are 16.7 million different colors in the hexadecimal color system.
Obviously I cannot list them all.
But here are some colors that I have found useful.
If you find any useful colors, please e-mail me.


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Standard White (the background of this page) #FFFFFF
Standard Black (the text on this page) #000000

a very hot pink #FF00FF
a pale peachy pink #FEDCBA
a very pale pink #E6B3FF
a very light pink #FFBFFF
a light pink #FFC2FF
a lighter pink #FFCFFF
a solid pink #FF8FFF
another pink #FF83FF
a bright pink #FF00B8
a very bright pink #FF0066
a light rosy pink #FC93A9
a rosy pink #ED5658
another rosy pink #ED5658
a rosy red #E32E61
a pinkish red #F40A4F
Standard Red #FF0000
a darker red #D90E0D
a dark red #B10000
a dark orange #FF7300
a solid orange #FF5910
another orange #FF7300
a light orange #FF9440
Standard Yellow #FFFF00
a medium yellow #EEE888
a dull yellow #FFFF82
another dull yellow #FFFF80
a very pale yellow #F0E9D8
a very pale yellow #FFF4BB
a greenish yellow #DBD657
a bright light green #9EEB4D
a very pale green #C2FFDA
a light green #91FFA7
Standard Green #00FF00
a bright green #4BBF10
a rich green #05BF40
a grassy green #008200
a very light green #A1F4BB
a bluish green #79C4C4
a pale bluish green #8ED1DA
Standard Blue #0000FF
a slightly darker blue #0000DE
a nice dark blue #0004BB
another dark blue #0000A0
a very pale blue #C2E6FF
a bright light blue #00FFFF
another light blue #33FFFF
a faint medium blue #ABCDEF
a mudium blue #9ED4FF
a nice solid blue #005EFF
another solid blue #0059FF
yet another solid blue #4778FF
a dark blue #03066A
a solid purple #5C00C2
another solid purple #8000DE
a darker purple #6330F0
a bluish purple #5256F7
a light bluish purple #ADADFF
a lighter bluish purple #999DFF
another bluish purple #8080FF
a dull bluish purple #567890
a duller bluish purple #AAAACA
a greyish bluish purple #9994BB
a light purple #DB70DB
another light purple #A333BD
a light bright purple #B500FF
a bright purple #BA00FF
another bright purple #DC16FF
a rich purple #8500FF
another rich purple #AD04E8
a bright pinkish purple #FF73FF
a plum #8500A3
a darker plum #730093
a rich plum #38005C
a dull plum #956581
a dark dull plum #5D3E68
Greys:
very dark grey #111111
dark grey #222222
dark grey #333333
dark grey #444444
dark grey #555555
dark grey #666666
medium grey #777777
lighter grey #888888
light grey #999999
light grey #AAAAAA
light grey #BBBBBB
light grey #CCCCCC
light grey #DDDDDD
very light grey #EEEEEE
a very dark grey #0C0C0C
a very dark grey #1E1E1E
a dark grey #4D425C
another dark grey #595658
a medium grey #767676
a light grey #898989
a light grey #C0C0C0
a light grey #D1C3C2
a light grey #D0D0D0
a light grey #E1E1E1
barely grey #FFF9E9


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