Wide's World
Color by numbers and letters
Stay inside the lines
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Widearea
With the recent movement to more webmaster friendly entities, this week Wide's World will be free of any graphic files, but full of design potential through the use of color. Using the standard hexadecimal color scheme employed for color representation in HTML, one can achieve infinite color statements for our adult web sites without making a single graphic form. After all, color is an extremely powerful and most valid method of communication. This is good news for the visually impaired artist.
RGB to Hexadecimal Conversion
The typical web designer should know something about color. Traditional print media uses a four color process to render color on paper, while the standard for web media is based on values of red, green and blue. The standard RGB palette consists of color made from 256 numerical values (integers from 0-255) of red, green and blue, respectively. HTML colors are formed with the hexadecimal equivalent (16 alphanumeric values, 0-9 and A-F) of each color's corresponding RGB value. The table below shows each value from 0-255 for R,G, or B and the corresponding hexadecimal equivalent:
The example below illustrates how the RGB to Hexadecimal conversion is made. For every value of red, green or blue, the chart above shows the how the hexadecimal equivalent is formed:
