WebHex.org would like to give you this tool to determine HTML Color Codes, also called hex codes, for use in the HTML on your website. HTML Color Codes (hex codes) are used in scripting websites to add color to them. These hex colors should be added into your CSS style sheets.

Web-Safe Colors Tutorial

This tutorial assumes that you have a basic knowledge of HTML. If you do not, here is a quick rundown. HTML, or some variation of it, is the "code" behind all the webpages on the Internet. Most of the websites you are familiar with have color on them. These colors are defined either with RGB (Red, Green, Blue) values or hexadecimal values. Since the "palette" of the web only contains 256 colors, the early developers of the Internet needed a quick simple way to define color. Writing out "red(245), green(129), blue(56)" became too much of a hassle for writing out in all your lines of code.

Thus it was decided that it would be acceptable to use hexadecimal, or base 16 to write out the color's numbers instead of normal base 10. hexadecimal contains the numbers 0-F (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F). In hexadecimal numbers up to 255 only contain two digits so color codes were shortened to 6 digits total. To signify that the new numbers were hexadecimal, coders put a "#" sign in front of the hexadecimal number.

Color codes may be used in HTML as shown in some of the following examples:

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