HTML extended color names

If you have worked with using colors in HTML, you may agree that the easiest way to reference colors is to use the actual color names. HTML recognizes the following 16 color names: aqua, black, blue, fuchsia, gray, green, lime, maroon, navy, olive, purple, red, silver, teal, white, and yellow. In addition to these HTML-defined colors, Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator recognize 140 standard color names.

Some color names include a combination of words such as sandybrown, honeydew, dimgray, etc. Although these are separate words, the color name when used in your HTML code, should be used as one word (without any space characters separating color names).

The table below provides extended color names. The table displays the name of the color, its hexadecimal value and its preview. To use a color in your HTML document, use either the color name or the hexadecimal value. For example, to use the color “Alice Blue” as a background color for an HTML table, you can set the <table> tag as

<table bgcolor="AliceBlue"> or <table bgcolor="#F0F8FE">

If you decide to use a color name, remember to not separate the color name with a space if the color name consists of more than one word. For instance, use “AliceBlue” instead of “Alice Blue”. Although a color name is easier to remember than a hexadecimal value, use of color name should be avoided because all browsers may not support all the color names. Thus use a hexadecimal value and check the color in different browsers, if possible, because different browsers may render the color differently, or not at all.

For your convenience, the following shows a list of some of named colors: aliceblue, aqua, aquamarine, azure, beige, bisque, black, blueviolet, blueviolet, brown, burlywood, chartreuse, chocolate, coral, crimson, cyan, darkblue, darkcyan, darkgoldenrod, darkgray, darkgreen, darkorange, darkorchid, darkseagreen, darkslateblue, darkslategray, darkviolet, dimgray, dodgerblue, firebrick, florawhite, forestgreen, ghostwhite, gold, goldenrod, gray, green, greenyellow, honedew, hotpink, indianred, indigo, ivory, khaki, lemonchiffon, lightblue, lightcoral, lightcyan, lightgoldenrodyellow, lightgreen, lightgrey, lightpink, lightsalmon, lightseagreen, lightskyblue, lightslategray, lightsteelblue, lightyellow, limegreen, linen, maroon, mediumaquamarine, mediumblue, mediumpurple, mediumseagreen, mediumslateblue, mediumturquoise, mediumvioletred, midnightblue, mintcream, mistyrose, moccasin, navajowhite, navy, olivedrab, olivedrab, orange, orangered, orchid, palegreen, palevioletred, peachpuff, peru, pink, plum, powderblue, purple, royalblue, salmon, sandybrown, silver, skyblue, slateblue, slategray, snow, springgreen, steelblue, tan, teal, tomato, turquoise, wheat, white, whitesmoke, yellow, and yellowgreen.

Hex color values

When you specify colors by using six-digit hexadecimal value, you are specifying the amounts of red, green and blue. In a hexadecimal value, the first two digits represent the amount of red, the second two represent green, and the final two represent blue. For each color, the hexadecimal values can range from 00 for no color to FF for full color. FF0000, for instance, represents red, 00FF00 represents green, 0000FF represents blue, 000000 represents black, FFFFFF represents white, and 808080 represents gray. When you combine colors, you create a new color; for instance, combining red and blue creates magenta, and combining green and blue creates cyan.