Picking and specifying web colour

Or color – the American spelling is used on the web.  The English version is used in novels.

We have a system for specifying a colour with 256 stages for each primary.

RGBA = Red Green Blue Alpha.  Alpha is the opacity level, and defaults to 1 (100% – i.e. no transparency).

Technical

Hex colours are expressed as a triplet of hex numbers (i.e. hex numerals from 0 to 15 are reprented as 0, 1, 2,3, 4, 5, 6,7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E.   255 is represented as 0xFF or just FF

Each colour can be represented with a leading #RRGGBB series, or as an rgb or rgba function.

Examples

#000000 = no colour = black

#00ff00 = 100% green

#ffff00 = 100% yellow

rgb(23,34,45) = #233445

rgb(255,0,0) = red = #ff0000

Useful Link

For a useful colour tool to mix your own pallet try this:

https://www.hexcolortool.com/#8dbfb6

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