Help:Color Chart

General

There are two ways to specify a particular color, and usually more than one way to use markup to specify the color displayed. If you have a very specific color in mind, you can specify the exact color by determining the Red Green and Blue components and converting this to a hexadecimal equivalent (an example is given below).

You can also use color constants, these are words that the wiki engine recognizes and will display that color for you without having to know the RGB components. A fairly complete table is given below that displays a variety of color constants.

Most modern browsers are able to display most colors, however there are still occasions where the colors a user sees are dependent on their particular browser/software version.

Color Chart

Note that these are case insensitive (capitalization, or lack thereof, doesn't matter).

AliceBlue AntiqueWhite Aqua Aquamarine Azure Beige Bisque Black BlanchedAlmond Blue BlueViolet Brown BurlyWood CadetBlue Chartreuse Chocolate Coral CornflowerBlue Cornsilk Crimson Cyan DarkBlue DarkCyan DarkGoldenrod DarkGray DarkGreen DarkKhaki DarkMagenta DarkOliveGreen DarkOrange DarkOrchid DarkRed DarkSalmon DarkSeaGreen DarkSlateBlue DarkSlateGray DarkTurquoise DarkViolet DeepPink DeepSkyBlue

DimGray DodgerBlue Firebrick FloralWhite ForestGreen Fuchsia Gainsboro GhostWhite Gold Goldenrod Gray Green GreenYellow Honeydew HotPink IndianRed Indigo Ivory Khaki Lavender LavenderBlush LawnGreen LemonChiffon LightBlue LightCoral LightCyan LightGoldenrod LightGray LightGreen LightPink LightSalmon LightSeaGreen LightSkyBlue LightSlateGray LightSteelBlue LightYellow Lime LimeGreen Linen Magenta

Maroon MediumAquamarine MediumBlue MediumOrchid MediumPurple MediumSeaGreen MediumSlateBlue MediumSpringGreen MediumTurquoise MediumVioletRed MidnightBlue MintCream MistyRose Moccasin NavajoWhite Navy OldLace Olive OliveDrab Orange OrangeRed Orchid PaleGoldenrod PaleGreen PaleTurquoise PaleVioletRed PapayaWhip PeachPuff Peru Pink Plum PowderBlue Purple Red RosyBrown RoyalBlue SaddleBrown Salmon SandyBrown SeaGreen

SeaShell Sienna Silver SkyBlue SlateBlue SlateGray Snow SpringGreen SteelBlue Tan Teal Thistle Tomato Transparent Turquoise Violet Wheat White WhiteSmoke Yellow YellowGreen

Using Colors

Here are some examples of using colors to change the appearance of different wiki elements. Both methods are shown (color constant and hexadecimal).

Text that is <font color=Green>Green</font>.

Text that is Green.

Text that is <font color=#FF0000>Red</font>.

Text that is Red.

Individual cell in a table:

{|border=1
|bgcolor=Red width=30|
|Red
|}

{|border=1
|bgcolor=#FF0000 width=30|
|Red
|}

Red

All the cells of a table:

{|border=1 style=background-color:CornflowerBlue
|A
|B
|}

A

B

RGB Components

To determine the hexadecimal value for a particular color you need to know the Red, Green, and Blue components. Each component ranges from 0 (none) to 255 (full). For example the color red has no blue or green, and red of 255. Yellow has no blue, and red of 255 and green of 255. Most graphics applications can tell you these for a particular color. You can use Microsoft Paint that comes with all versions of Windows, use the eye dropper to select the color, then under the Colors menu select Edit Colors then Define Custom Colors. There you'll see the RGB values defined.

Once you know the RGB values you can convert them to the hexadecimal equivalent. Use the Windows calculator to enter the value for each component then change from Dec to Hex. For example, enter 255 while in Dec, then click on Hex and it will read FF. FF is the hexadecimal value for 255. To do another number switch back to Dec and for example 128 is 80. Values in a hexadecimal number can range from 0-9 and A-F. Once you have values for each component, simply string them together (each component should have 2 digits, so if it's 0, make it 00). The # symbol tells the wiki parser that it is a hexadecimal value. See the table below for some example conversions.

Color	Name	Red	Red Hex	Green	Green Hex	Blue	Blue Hex	Hexadecimal
	Orchid	218	DA	112	70	214	D6	#DA70D6
	LightSeaGreen	32	20	178	B2	170	AA	#20B2AA
	LightGray	211	D3	211	D3	211	D3	#D3D3D3
	RoyalBlue	65	41	105	69	225	E1	#4169E1
	Black	0	00	0	00	0	00	#000000