HTML & Color

How to Use Color  Backgrounds-  Usually a light color is best  Should have a color based on a theme or plan  Can have a dark background if…  Part of your theme  Drawing attention to a certain page  Could also use frames to separate sections to show emphasis

How to Use Color (con’t)  Text-  Usually dark color  Should be part of a theme or plan  Shouldn’t change more than a few times on your entire page-No alternating  Create all titles the same, all main text a different but same color

How to Use Color (con’t)  Hyperlinks-  Can have a different color for…  “To be clicked” links  “Hover” links  “Been clicked” links  Again, do not alternate!  Make all “to be clicked” the same color on all pages

Types of Color  16 Basic Colors  Aqua, Black, Blue, Fuchsia, Gray, Green, Lime, Maroon, Navy, Olive, Purple, Silver, Teal, White & Yellow  Can be seen on browsers without issue  Hexadecimal  Specifying the RGB (red-green-blue) values in each color  6 digit value, can include letters or numbers

Problems with Colors  Not all monitors see the same amount of colors  The “16 Colors” are safe thought  Hexadecimal, might not be

Play with Color  ecimal-decimal-colors.html ecimal-decimal-colors.html  pec/color.html pec/color.html 

Go to one of the color websites and list your favorite color for… 1. Red 2. Blue 3. Green 4. Yellow 5. Pink 6. Purple 7. Gray 8. Orange 9. Brown 10. YOUR Favorite overall color