The decimal numbers 36, 104, and 160 are equivalent to the hexadecimal numbers 24, 68, and A0 respectively. The hex triplet is formed by concatenating three bytes in hexadecimal notation, in the following order:įor example, consider the color where the red/green/blue values are decimal numbers: red=36, green=104, blue=160 (a grayish-blue color). Thus web colors specify colors in the 24-bit RGB color scheme. This represents the least (0) to the most (255) intensity of each of the color components.

One byte represents a number in the range 00 to FF (in hexadecimal notation), or 0 to 255 in decimal notation.

The bytes represent the red, green, and blue components of the color. More advanced user agents use color management to provide better color fidelity this is particularly important for Web-to-print applications.Ī hex triplet is a six-digit, three- byte hexadecimal number used in HTML, CSS, SVG, and other computing applications to represent colors. User agents vary in the fidelity with which they represent the specified colors. These have been chosen to be similar to many real-world monitors and viewing conditions, to allow rendering to be fairly close to the specified values even without color management. Web colors have an unambiguous colorimetric definition, sRGB, which relates the chromaticities of a particular phosphor set, a given transfer curve, adaptive whitepoint, and viewing conditions.

The first versions of Mosaic and Netscape Navigator used the X11 color names as the basis for their color lists, as both started as X Window System applications. It is impossible with the hexadecimal syntax (and thus impossible in legacy HTML documents that do not use CSS). Specifying a non-sRGB color this way requires the RGB() function call. Thus, there are 24 bits used to specify a web color within the sRGB gamut, and 16,777,216 colors that may be so specified.Ĭolors outside the sRGB gamut can be specified in Cascading Style Sheets by making one or more of the red, green and blue components negative or greater than 100%, so the color space is theoretically an unbounded extrapolation of sRGB similar to scRGB. A color is specified according to the intensity of its red, green and blue components, each represented by eight bits. In some uses, hexadecimal color codes are specified with notation using a leading number sign (#).

A color tool or other graphics software is often used to generate color values. Colors may be specified as an RGB triplet or in hexadecimal format (a hex triplet) or according to their common English names in some cases. Web colors are colors used in displaying web pages on the World Wide Web, and the methods for describing and specifying those colors.

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