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Maybe you've had a look at the other tables of color names in this series
and come away frustrated by the range of choice but with so many restrictions.
Well, here's a basic set of colours that you can use by name and that display on a 256-color screen in MS Internet Explorer3, Netscape Navigator3 and Opera3.6 for Windows. Explorer was found to display the same colour for several different color-names and hexadecimal values. Some of these duplicates have been removed from the table to avoid the possibility of a design acceptable in another browser displaying poorly in Explorer. A few of Opera's named colours display slightly differently from the hexadecimal versions, but were considered close enough matches to retain. Removing them would have decreased the value of the table, which shows colors safe to use in all three browsers. Bear in mind that each browser displays colours slightly differently on the same system, but the colors listed below are all differentiated. Some may be close in hue to others, but they can all be told apart. Check the hexadecimal values and you will see that Aqua and Cyan are the same, as are Fuchsia and Magenta. If you use the names marked [A], you can be sure the colours will display in Arachne1.5 (the graphical browser for DOS). For those designing specifically for Arachne, or those simply wanting to use a smaller "sure-fire" palette, there is a special page available with this collection. By using the colours on this page in your HTML for the text and backgrounds, you can be fairly sure that your webpages will be viewable with most browsers on most systems. After all, if the content of your webpage has any value you want the maximum audience to be able to see it. And that includes using viewable colors and designing pages for users of alternative and previous generation browsers. International and US spellings for "colour" have been alternated in the text. |
Colour Names |
RGB Values |
Hexadecimal Values |
| aqua [A] | 0, 255, 255 | #00FFFF |
| black [A] | 0, 0, 0 | #000000 |
| blue [A] | 0, 0, 255 | #0000FF |
| brown [A] | 128, 42, 42 | #A52A2A |
| cadetblue | 95, 158, 160 | #5F9EA0 |
| chocolate | 210, 105, 30 | #D2691E |
| coral | 255, 127, 80 | #FF7F50 |
| cyan | 0, 255, 255 | #00FFFF |
| darkkhaki | 189, 183, 107 | #BDB76B |
| darkorange | 255, 140, 0 | #FF8C00 |
| darksalmon | 233, 150, 122 | #E9967A |
| darkseagreen | 143, 188, 143 | #8FBC8F |
| darkslategray | 47, 79, 79 | #2F4F4F |
| darkviolet | 148, 0, 211 | #9400D3 |
| deeppink | 255, 20, 147 | #FF1493 |
| deepskyblue | 0, 191, 255 | #00BFFF |
| dodgerblue | 30, 144, 255 | #1E90FF |
| fuchsia [A] | 255, 0, 255 | #FF00FF |
| gray [A] | 128, 128, 128 | #808080 |
| green [A] | 0, 128, 0 | #008000 |
| greenyellow | 173, 255, 47 | #ADFF2F |
| lightpink | 255, 182, 193 | #FFB6C1 |
| lightsalmon | 255, 160, 122 | #FFA07A |
| lightskyblue | 135, 206, 250 | #87CEFA |
| lime [A] | 0, 255, 0 | #00FF00 |
| magenta | 255, 0, 255 | #FF00FF |
| maroon [A] | 128, 0, 0 | #800000 |
| mediumblue [A] | 0, 0, 205 | #0000CD |
| mediumpurple | 147, 112, 219 | #9370DB |
| mediumturquoise | 72, 209, 204 | #48D1CC |
| mediumvioletred | 199, 21, 133 | #C71585 |
| midnightblue | 25, 25, 112 | #191970 |
| navy [A] | 0, 0, 128 | #000080 |
| olive [A] | 128, 128, 0 | #808000 |
| orange | 255, 165, 0 | #FFA500 |
| orchid | 218, 112, 214 | #DA70D6 |
| paleturquoise | 175, 238, 238 | #AFEEEE |
| pink | 255, 192, 203 | #FFC0CB |
| purple [A] | 128, 0, 128 | #800080 |
| red [A] | 255, 0, 0 | #FF0000 |
| rosybrown | 188, 143, 143 | #BC8F8F |
| royalblue | 65, 105, 225 | #4169E1 |
| seagreen | 46, 139, 87 | #2E8B57 |
| silver [A] | 192, 192, 192 | #C0C0C0 |
| teal [A] | 0, 128, 128 | #008080 |
| white [A] | 255, 255, 255 | #FFFFFF |
| yellow [A] | 255, 255, 0 | #FFFF00 |
Still too many colours for you? Then take a look at the
Arachne palette.
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