Modern Life - Comments on 'Hexadecimal Colour Mnemonics'

Chris wrote:

Wed, 09 May 2007 14:21:55 +0100

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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Raz wrote:

Mon, 07 May 2007 02:55:12 +0100

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>

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Ben wrote:

Mon, 07 May 2007 00:00:46 +0100

This is by far the stupidest CSS related post I've seen in a while. Rubbish!

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Stuart Brown wrote:

Sun, 06 May 2007 12:55:39 +0100

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!

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Arpit Jacob wrote:

Sun, 06 May 2007 12:02:23 +0100

@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.

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Arjun Muralidharan wrote:

Sun, 06 May 2007 10:30:38 +0100

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.

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Cifra wrote:

Sun, 06 May 2007 10:21:11 +0100

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?

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Stuart Brown wrote:

Sun, 06 May 2007 04:12:12 +0100

To be honest, it's more fun coming up with them than finding a practical use :-)

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Arpit Jacob wrote:

Sun, 06 May 2007 03:56:30 +0100

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.

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