HTML Color Codes

As an aid for our next few lessons, we are going to talk briefly about HTML color codes. You may need this knowledge to understand future lessons clearly.

Red, Green and Blue

If we ask any artiste what are the basic colors, they'll simply reply as red, green and blue. We can create almost any color by combining red, green and blue. The same principle is used when naming colors in HTML. HTML color codes are either given with hexadecimal notations or using (RGB) values. RGB stands for red, green and blue.

For example If you say rgb (250,20,30), It's like what color you get if you add 250 of red, 20 of green and 30 of blue. By changing the Red, Green and Blue values from 0 to 250 you can have about more than 16 million different colors.

Color	Hex Value	RGB Value
	#000000	rgb(0,0,0)
	#ff0000	rgb(250,0,0)
	#00ff00	rgb(0,250,0)
	#0000ff	rgb(0,0,250)
	#ffffff	rgb(250,250,250)

In Blogger template designer you'll often see these color codes which we will be learning later.

But the problem is “Am I supposed to memorize all these hexadecimal notations or the RGB values to have my desired color wherever I want?” Absolutely not. For that you can use HTML color picker on W3Schools as a simple tool to find out the hexadecimal notations of your desired color and then you can simply paste it in your HTML code to have your color of interest.

HTML color picker

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