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For your webpages to display a certain color background, text or links,
you may use either predefined colour names or hexadecimal values in your
HTML code. A restricted list of color names is presented below, along with their red-green-blue (RGB) and hexadecimal values. These have been found to display accurately with Arachne1.5 (the graphical browser for DOS) on a 256-colour screen. A question-mark [?] indicates colors that are slightly askew, but that you may decide are usable. Additionally, named colours that are not displayed accurately by MS Explorer3, Netscape Navigator3 or Opera3.6 are indicated by E, N and/or O. Spare a thought for Windoze users! Arachne's support for color names is poor, with some output completely opposite to the desired result. Nevertheless, its rendering of hexadecimal-specified colours is better than Windows browsers, which cannot display many of the pale colours on a 256-color screen. This is not to suggest you should use the "difficult" colours. After all, if the content of your webpage has any value you want the maximum audience to be able to see it! International and US spellings for "colour" have been alternated in the text. |
Colour Names |
RGB Values |
Hexadecimal Values |
| aqua | 0, 255, 255 | #00FFFF |
| black | 0, 0, 0 | #000000 |
| blue | 0, 0, 255 | #0000FF |
| brown [?] | 128, 42, 42 | #A52A2A |
| chocolate [?] | 210, 105, 30 | #D2691E |
| dimgray [O] | 105, 105, 105 | #696969 |
| fuchsia | 255, 0, 255 | #FF00FF |
| gray | 128, 128, 128 | #808080 |
| green | 0, 128, 0 | #008000 |
| lime | 0, 255, 0 | #00FF00 |
| maroon | 128, 0, 0 | #800000 |
| mediumblue | 0, 0, 205 | #0000CD |
| navy | 0, 0, 128 | #000080 |
| navyblue [E,N,O] | 0, 0, 128 | #000080 |
| olive | 128, 128, 0 | #808000 |
| purple | 128, 0, 128 | #800080 |
| red | 255, 0, 0 | #FF0000 |
| silver | 192, 192, 192 | #C0C0C0 |
| slategray [?] | 112, 128, 144 | #708090 |
| teal | 0, 128, 128 | #008080 |
| white | 255, 255, 255 | #FFFFFF |
| yellow | 255, 255, 0 | #FFFF00 |