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Of interest to UT Web authors/designers: the Pantone Internet Color System Guide (ISBN 1-881509-94-X) shows #cc6600 as closest to "UT burnt orange." It may not appear so on your screen; the wide disparity in color calibration among computer monitors makes it difficult to predict how accurately color will be rendered across the Web. It is best simply to specify the appropriate color and not worry too much how the result will appear on a given monitor (including your own!). 

Named Colors


These 16 colors can be specified by name; they were chosen for the HTML 3.2 recommendation because they are the standard colors supported in the Windows VGA palette.



aqua black blue fuchsia green gray
lime maroon navy olive purple red
  silver teal white yellow  

RGB Hexadecimal Coded Colors

Colors may also be specified by six-character codes representing their relative red/green/blue (RGB) values, where the possible values for each color component are 00, 33, 66, 99, cc, and ff.



The six charts below display the 216 possible colors in the browser palette with their hexadecimal RGB codes (a seventh chart displays the gray scale). In each chart the blue value is constant, the vertical axis represents increasing red values, and the horizontal axis represents increasing green values.



The six charts can be visualized as a cube composed of 216 cubelets; the total cube has six layers of thirty-six cubelets; each cubelet is a unique color. Using this metaphor, black (#000000) in the lower left of the first chart is one corner of the cube and white (#ffffff) in the upper right of the last chart is the opposite corner of the cube; the cubelets running through the body of the cube in a line from black to white comprise the gray scale.


ff0000 ff3300 ff6600 ff9900 ffcc00 ffff00
cc0000 cc3300 cc6600 cc9900 cccc00 ccff00
990000 993300 996600 999900 99cc00 99ff00
660000 663300 666600 669900 66cc00 66ff00
330000 333300 336600 339900 33cc00 33ff00
000000 003300 006600 009900 00cc00 00ff00

ff0033 ff3333 ff6633 ff9933 ffcc33 ffff33
cc0033 cc3333 cc6633 cc9933 cccc33 ccff33
990033 993333 996633 999933 99cc33 99ff33
660033 663333 666633 669933 66cc33 66ff33
330033 333333 336633 339933 33cc33 33ff33
000033 003333 006633 009933 00cc33 00ff33

ff0066 ff3366 ff6666 ff9966 ffcc66 ffff66
cc0066 cc3366 cc6666 cc9966 cccc66 ccff66
990066 993366 996666 999966 99cc66 99ff66
660066 663366 666666 669966 66cc66 66ff66
330066 333366 336666 339966 33cc66 33ff66
000066 003366 006666 009966 00cc66 00ff66

ff0099 ff3399 ff6699 ff9999 ffcc99 ffff99
cc0099 cc3399 cc6699 cc9999 cccc99 ccff99
990099 993399 996699 999999 99cc99 99ff99
660099 663399 666699 669999 66cc99 66ff99
330099 333399 336699 339999 33cc99 33ff99
000099 003399 006699 009999 00cc99 00ff99

ff00cc ff33cc ff66cc ff99cc ffcccc ffffcc
cc00cc cc33cc cc66cc cc99cc cccccc ccffcc
9900cc 9933cc 9966cc 9999cc 99cccc 99ffcc
6600cc 6633cc 6666cc 6699cc 66cccc 66ffcc
3300cc 3333cc 3366cc 3399cc 33cccc 33ffcc
0000cc 0033cc 0066cc 0099cc 00cccc 00ffcc

ff00ff ff33ff ff66ff ff99ff ffccff ffffff
cc00ff cc33ff cc66ff cc99ff ccccff ccffff
9900ff 9933ff 9966ff 9999ff 99ccff 99ffff
6600ff 6633ff 6666ff 6699ff 66ccff 66ffff
3300ff 3333ff 3366ff 3399ff 33ccff 33ffff
0000ff 0033ff 0066ff 0099ff 00ccff 00ffff

Hexadecimal Gray Scale
000000 333333 666666 999999 cccccc ffffff

HTML Attributes to Specify Color

If one of the following <BODY> attributes is used, they all should be specified in order to avoid color conflicts; for example, you may assign a backgound color and a visitor may have his/her browser set to display text in the same color, making your page unreadable. All these attributes should be specified in a single <BODY> tag.

<BODY BGCOLOR="#ff6600">
sets the background color for the page as a whole.
 
<BODY TEXT="#ff6600">
sets the text color for the page as a whole.
 
<BODY LINK="#ff6600">
sets the unvisited link color for the page as a whole.
 
<BODY VLINK="#ff6600">
sets the visited link color for the page as a whole.
 
<BODY ALINK="#ff6600">
sets the activated link color (i.e. the color of the link as users click on it) for the page as a whole.
<FONT COLOR="#cc6600">sample text</FONT>
sets the color of selected text within a page.
<TABLE BGCOLOR="#ff6600">
sets the background color for an entire table.
 
<TH BGCOLOR="#ff6600">
sets the background color for one header cell within a table.
 
<TD BGCOLOR="#ff6600">
sets the background color for one data cell within a table.

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