Hexadecimal Colors
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How we are going to convey a Graphic Designer through online chating about a color that you want for your Website. Hexadecimal color codes are great help to convey the color you want by typing 6 digits color code. Hexadecimal color codes for any color consist of total 6 Digits. Sample Hexadecimal code = #FF0000 (for Red color).
Hexadecimal colors widely used in HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) pages to designate on different areas in page like background, links, tables etc,.
Hexadecimals are counted from 0 to 16. They are:- 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F.
The Primary colors Red, Green, Blue and Yellow can be obtained by shifting F and 0 position.
The following are the color codes for Primary Colors (Consisting of only F and 0)
#FF0000 = Red (Where as for White all “F”s ie #FFFFFF and for black all “0″s ie #000000)
#00FF00 = Green
#0000FF = Blue
#FFFF00 = Yellow
| Red | Green | Blue | Yellow |
| #ff0000 | #00ff00 | #0000ff | #ffff00 |
All same digits will produce different shades of black ie #000000 being 100% Black and there after in decending order with #FFFFFF is being white.
Try the following Codes by pasting in to photoshop color picker Color code box and oserve the black variations.
| #000000 #111111 #222222 #333333 #444444 #555555 #666666 #777777 #888888 #999999 #AAAAAA #BBBBBB #CCCCCC #DDDDDD #EEEEEE #FFFFFF |
Color code of any graphic can be sensed with Eye Dropper tool. Photoshop Eye dropper tool can sense the color codes of graphics opened in that Software only. It can’t sense the color codes of Webpages opened in Web Browsers. Mozilla Fire Fox browsers are having great options for sensing the samples of webpages color codes. Download Mozilla Firefox ColorZilla (free) to take samples of Webpages that are opened in Mozilla Firefox browser.