A very good idea, this is going to help me a lot with designing pages. I'm tired of having to switch the window to a color palette every time. But everyone should already know how to write white & black in hex, shouldn't they?
A tip I like to employ when designing a good cSS template: Make a large header comment in the cSS file listing out all the colors you use on the site. Comes in handy when you make graphics for a website and need to check the colors. Or when you need to adjust adsense templates.
@arjun I agree. Its nice to have your colors organized and to use the same hex everywhere. Once I had finished with my website i realized I was using different hues of the same color since I couldn't rem which pink or blue i had used before.
Wow, that is difficult.
<small>More simply, #CCCCCC (light silver/grey) as 'colourless', & NavajoWhite (a peachy skin colour) as simply #FFDEAD, although why anyone would want to use either colour is beyond me.</small>
It's easy to remember things that rhyme, so #C00, #B00, #D00 and #F00 are all various shades of red.
Bearing in mind that the hex system describes colours in the order Red, Green and Blue (RGB) it is then easy to swap the red rhymes round thus: #00F, #00B, #00C etc to give different shades of blue. And the same with shades of green. Substituting numbers 1-6 for the letters gives you even more shades of the basic colours. Not quite a mnemonic in the strictest sense, but still helpful.
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Arpit Jacob wrote:
Whats this you cramming for a exam or what :D. I rather have a color tool handy. Though its good to remember the basic colors.
Stuart Brown wrote:
To be honest, it's more fun coming up with them than finding a practical use :-)
Cifra wrote:
A very good idea, this is going to help me a lot with designing pages. I'm tired of having to switch the window to a color palette every time. But everyone should already know how to write white & black in hex, shouldn't they?
Arjun Muralidharan wrote:
That's a fun way to remember them.
A tip I like to employ when designing a good cSS template: Make a large header comment in the cSS file listing out all the colors you use on the site. Comes in handy when you make graphics for a website and need to check the colors. Or when you need to adjust adsense templates.
Arpit Jacob wrote:
@arjun I agree. Its nice to have your colors organized and to use the same hex everywhere. Once I had finished with my website i realized I was using different hues of the same color since I couldn't rem which pink or blue i had used before.
Stuart Brown wrote:
I tend to print out a reference listing of all the colours I'm using on a sheet of paper, then refer to that. Can't beat a low-tech solution!
Ben wrote:
This is by far the stupidest CSS related post I've seen in a while. Rubbish!
Raz wrote:
Wow, that is difficult.
<small>More simply, #CCCCCC (light silver/grey) as 'colourless', & NavajoWhite (a peachy skin colour) as simply #FFDEAD, although why anyone would want to use either colour is beyond me.</small>
Chris wrote:
It's easy to remember things that rhyme, so #C00, #B00, #D00 and #F00 are all various shades of red.
Bearing in mind that the hex system describes colours in the order Red, Green and Blue (RGB) it is then easy to swap the red rhymes round thus: #00F, #00B, #00C etc to give different shades of blue. And the same with shades of green. Substituting numbers 1-6 for the letters gives you even more shades of the basic colours. Not quite a mnemonic in the strictest sense, but still helpful.
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