| Letters and numbers that indicate color |

-Range from 6 numbers in a row to 6 letters in a row

- 00.00.00 or FF.FF.FF

-Represents a range = 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,a,b,c,d,e,f

- Early computers limited to 256 colors

-worked in pairs

-limited themselves to 0,3,6,9,c,f

- First pair indicates how much red

-Second pair indicates how much green

-Third pair indicates how much blue

- 0 means none

-When you put lg. amounts of each pair you get black

-When there is no red,green or blue, you get white

***There is a chart of colors on Eng website homepage***

-“Dithering”- using diff color dots to create a color that is not on the chart

-(modern computers do this, older computers do not)

Ex: <Font color = “#0033cc”> OR <Font color = “03c”>

| Another way to think about colors |

-Go from light colors to dark colors

-No matter what comp. one is working on, if it shows color, it is showing those 256 colors.

-WebSmart Colors: (on Eng website) Websafe sticks with 0,3,6,9,c,f ~Websmart sticks with pairs ~Unsafe uses diff techniques

-Value of color: lightness/darkness of color

-Have to put colors together to see how they work

-Colors have emotional weight

-warm: reds, oranges

-cool: blues, greens

-neutral: browns, grays