HTML colours : Java Glossary

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HTML colours

Click any ball to view the corresponding colour palette.

Named Colours	Alphabetically (113)	BHS: by Brightness, Hue, Saturation	HBS: by Hue, Brightness, Saturation	SBH: by Saturation, Brightness, Hue	Java AWT Colours (16,777,216)
Named Colours	RGB: Numerically (113)	BSH: by Brightness, Saturation, Hue	HSB: by Hue, Saturation, Brightness	SHB: by Saturation, Hue, Brightness	Java Swing Colours (16,777,216)
Numbered Colours	HTML 3.2 (16)	Websafe (216)	Rainbow (4096)	Spectrum (401)	X11 (657)
Selected Colours	Pale (256)	Dark (2022)	Simple (105)	Greys (256)	Colour Schemes

HTML 3.2 Standard 16 Colours Sorted Alphabetically

HTML 3.2 Standard 16 named Colours Sorted Alphabetically.
Color Name	Using name				hex	Using hex				Red	Green	Blue	Hue	Sat	Bright
aqua	test	test	test	test	#00ffff	test	test	test	test	0	255	255	0.500	1.000	1.000
black	test	test	test	test	#000000	test	test	test	test	0	0	0	0.000	0.000	0.000
blue	test	test	test	test	#0000ff	test	test	test	test	0	0	255	0.333	1.000	1.000
fuchsia	test	test	test	test	#ff00ff	test	test	test	test	255	0	255	0.167	1.000	1.000
gray	test	test	test	test	#808080	test	test	test	test	128	128	128	0.000	0.000	0.502
green	test	test	test	test	#008000	test	test	test	test	0	128	0	0.667	1.000	0.502
lime	test	test	test	test	#00ff00	test	test	test	test	0	255	0	0.667	1.000	1.000
maroon	test	test	test	test	#800000	test	test	test	test	128	0	0	0.000	1.000	0.502
navy	test	test	test	test	#000080	test	test	test	test	0	0	128	0.333	1.000	0.502
olive	test	test	test	test	#808000	test	test	test	test	128	128	0	0.833	1.000	0.502
purple	test	test	test	test	#800080	test	test	test	test	128	0	128	0.167	1.000	0.502
red	test	test	test	test	#ff0000	test	test	test	test	255	0	0	0.000	1.000	1.000
silver	test	test	test	test	#c0c0c0	test	test	test	test	192	192	192	0.000	0.000	0.753
teal	test	test	test	test	#008080	test	test	test	test	0	128	128	0.500	1.000	0.502
white	test	test	test	test	#ffffff	test	test	test	test	255	255	255	0.000	0.000	1.000
yellow	test	test	test	test	#ffff00	test	test	test	test	255	255	0	0.833	1.000	1.000

How to use the Tables

The table above shows the Standard Netscape colours displayed eight ways, (colour on white, colour on black, black on colour, white on colour) both using alpha names and hex names. You can check out your browser for Netscape colour compatibility. It shows the Standard Netscape 8.0 alpha names such as "aliceblue" and also the hex, RGB and HSB values.

Netscape has a set of built-in colour names you can use HTML in the form:

<font color="aliceblue">

For compatibility with other browsers, it would be safer to specify the HTML with the hexadecimal RGB colour names. Netscape Composer automatically converts the colour names to the corresponding hex values:

<font color="#f0f8ff">

You can use the colours in Java with their decimal RGB names:

Color aliceblue = new Color( 240, 248, 255 );

or with their hex names:

Color aliceblue = new Color( 0xf0f8ff );

Depending on how compatible your browser is with Netscape 8.0, and if your video driver supports full colour, these colours may or may not render properly.

Note that Netscape includes support all the colours in the HTML 3.2 standard colour set.

The one-shot Java program Palette that created the HTML tables shown here is available on request. You can see also see the full table in raw ASCII text form. You might canibalise them to support named colours in your Java apps.

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