HTML Color Codes

Audience Access

Many people still access the Internet via a modem, and a good number still view web pages on monitors that display only 256 colors. With this in mind, it is best to design your web page using HTML color codes that reflect the limits imposed by this fact if you want to reach a wide range of browsers.

The language and memory schemes employed in color displays correspond to those that depict color depth in graphics files. In uncompressed 8-bit images, the 256 colors that create the image are referred to as a palette, index or is also known as a color lookup table (CLUT). When it comes to using HTML codes, a pallet of almost 150 color names are supported by all major browsers.

Pallet of 150 HTML Color Codes

The following list of HTML codes provides the official color name as well as the broadly accepted hexadecimal code:

How to Use Hexadecimal Color Codes

To produce color on your web page using HTML codes such as those in the table above the code is inserted into the HTML document. The code is comprised of six numbers and/or letters which distinguish over 14 million color possibilities with varying shades.

To enter the HTML color code into your text use this tag:

<font color="color"> </font> Text appearing between the tags will display the color stipulated.

Using Color Names Rather Than Code

Another option to generate color on your website is to create a tag using the color name rather than the hexadecimal color code. For example, if you want red text, instead of using the <font color="#FF0000"> you can replace the code with the official color name "red".

Using an HTML Editor

An HTML editor makes adding color easy. All you have to do is pick the color you want from an existing index. The editor does the rest of the work by creating the HTML code. The following list of resources will help to find the HTML Editor that's right for you:

• CoffeeCup
• Page Breeze
• Edit Plus
• HippiePro HTML Editor