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Design

Posted by Lisbeth Davies
Lisbeth Davies
1,908 Points

Useful tool for color codes

When creating a quick html/css layout I like to use named colors for backgrounds and borders because they're so much easier to recognize than hex codes (unless it's my "signature color" of #990000 ;-))

Example:

#body {background-color: SteelBlue; color: Honeydew}

#header {background-color: DarkOliveGreen;}

#nav {background-color: MediumSpringGreen;}

#wrapper {background-color: Crimson;}

#footer {background-color: Coral;}

The goal is not to develop an attractive color palette but to use color names that can be recognized at a glance.

So this is a great tool to remind me of named colors, thought others might find it useful:

http://cloford.com/resources/colours/500col.htm

Anyone else do this?

Happy coding!

2 Answers

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

These are the only colors that have official names

http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-color/#svg-color

Lisbeth Davies
Lisbeth Davies
1,908 Points
Lisbeth Davies
Lisbeth Davies
1,908 Points

Thanks James, a good reminder (I wouldn't use named colors on a live site, this is just for working out layouts while learning css properly).