SAFE COLOUR SAMPLES

(Select your Background, Text and Image Colours / Colors)
Safe Colour Samples adapted from a Webpage chart by PAUL LUJAN, of Harvard University, 1999; PLUS

THE NAMED COLOURS

in alphabetical order from the list and codes in book by MARTIN & DAVIS, Project Cool…, 1997, pp 221-22
AND THE OLD 16 BASIC COLOURS
AND SUGGESTED BACKGROUND COLOURS , SIEGEL’s , CASTRO’s
all testable against two Background Changers

154 ^ ^ < < Experiments CONTENTS 1-50 101-on Translate Links Events Books HOME Named Colours > > v v 156

Directories: Main 19 Australia Esperanto Experiments Freedom Georgist Globalism Molestation 141 Religion Submission 6

Background Colour Changer adapted and enlarged from Brenda Frink and Michael Anderson (eds), HTML Complete, 1999, Sybex, San Francisco, page 607.

The first eight actual colours on this table are eight of the 16 "NAMED COLOURS", and have been shown with no capital initial, because this began to be the preferred way of quoting the named colours. There were quite a number of duplications in the names that were originally on Paul Lujan's "Safe Color Samples," so I have attempted to either change or number them.
Remember, the majority of the colours in the SAFE COLOURS list are NOT one of the "Named Colours." In any case, my advice is to use the Hexadecimal numbering system written with lower-case letters, not the names. And NOT with other numeric or percentage values (The reason for this is that the newer tagging languages XML and XHTML do NOT support them, according to Elizabeth Castro's book, 2003. She and other authors now believe that nearly everybody has a browser that will correctly show every colour, or will soon have one. But it is still useful and pleasant to see colours on the screen with their relevant codings.)

Safe Color Samples

PRIMARY COLORS
#ffffff white	#ff0000 red	#00ff00 lime	#0000ff blue

SECONDARY COLORS
#000000 black	#00ffff cyan / aqua	#ff00ff magenta/fuchsia	#ffff00 yellow

GRAYS/GREYS
#333333 Dark Gray	#666666 Medium Gray	#999999 Light Gray	#cccccc Really Light Gray

PRIMARY SHADES
#330000 Almost Black Red	#660000 Unofficial Brown	#990000 Mid Brown	#cc0000 Dark Red

#ff3333 Medium Red	#ff6666 Lighter Red	#ff9999 Unofficial Pink	#ffcccc Light Pink

#003300 Almost Black Green	#006600 Somewhat Dark Green	#009900 Darkish Green	#00cc00 Dark Green 1st

#33ff33 Light Green 1st	#66ff66 Lighter Green	#99ff99 Really Light Green	#ccffcc Very Light Green

#000033 Almost Black Blue	#000066 Very Dark Blue 1st	#000099 Darkish Blue	#0000cc Dark Blue 1st

#3333ff Bright Blue 1st	#6666ff Lighter Blue	#9999ff Blue-Mauve	#ccccff Lilac

SECONDARY SHADES
#003333 Almost Black Cyan	#006666 Dark Green-Cyan	#009999 Green-Cyan	#00cccc Blue-Cyan

#33ffff Lighter Cyan	#66ffff Even Lighter Cyan	#99ffff Very Light Cyan	#ccffff Almost Unreadable Cyan

#330033 Almost Black Magenta	#660066 Very Dark Magenta	#990099 Darkish Magenta	#cc00cc Dark Magenta

#ff33ff Lighter Magenta	#ff66ff Even Lighter Magenta	#ff99ff Very Light Magenta	#ffccff Almost Unreadable Magenta

#333300 Almost Black Yellow	#666600 Khakhi-ish Brown	#999900 Yellowish Khakhi	#cccc00 Dark Yellow

#ffff33 Lighter Yellow	#ffff66 Even Lighter Yellow	#ffff99 Very Light Yellow	#ffffcc Almost Unreadable Yellow

GREEN AND BLUE ONLY
#003366 Blue-Black 1st	#003399 Dark Blue 2nd	#0033cc Deep Blue 1st	#0033ff Bright Blue 2nd

#006633 Green-Black 1st	#006699 Dark Blue-Green	#0066cc Faded Blue	#0066ff Light Blue 1st

#009933 Very Dark Green	#009966 Dark Green-Blue	#0099cc Light Blue-Green	#0099ff Pale Blue

#00cc33 Deep Green	#00cc66 Faded Green	#00cc99 Light Green-Blue	#00ccff Bluish Aqua

#00ff33 Bright Green 1st	#00ff66 Light Green 2nd	#00ff99 Pale Green 1st	#00ffcc Greenish Aqua

RED AND BLUE ONLY
#330066 Blue-Black 2nd	#330099 Dark Blue 3rd	#3300cc Deep Blue 2nd	#3300ff Bright Blue 3rd

#660033 Mission Brown	#660099 Dark Bluish Violet	#6600cc Faded Blue	#6600ff Light Blue 2nd

#990033 Deep Brown	#990066 Dark Violet	#9900cc Light Bluish Violet	#9900ff Blue-Violet

#cc0033 Deep Red 1st	#cc0066 Strong Red	#cc0099 Light Reddish Violet	#cc00ff Pale Bluish Violet

#ff0033 Bright Red 1st	#ff0066 Light Red	#ff0099 Red-Violet	#ff00cc Pale Reddish Violet

RED AND GREEN ONLY
#336600 Green-Black 2nd	#339900 Dark Green 2nd	#33cc00 Deep Green 2nd	#33ff00 Bright Green 2nd

#663300 Rust Brown	#669900 Camouflage Green	#66cc00 Green-Lime	#66ff00 Unofficial Lime

#993300 Burgundy	#996600 Brownish	#99cc00 Yellowish Lime	#99ff00 Light Lime

#cc3300 Deep Red 2nd	#cc6600 Red-Orange 1st	#cc9900 Yellowish Orange / Brown	#ccff00 Limeish Yellow

#ff3300 Bright Red 2nd	#ff6600 Unofficial Orange	#ff9900 Light Orange	#ffcc00 Golden Yellow

MAGENTA AND YELLOW ONLY
#ff3366 Red-Magenta	#ff3399 Dark Magenta 2nd	#ff33cc Deep Magenta	#ff33ff Lighter Magenta

#ff6633 Red-Yellow	#ff6699 Dark Magenta-Red	#ff66cc Mid Magenta	#ff66ff Even Lighter Magenta

#ff9933 An Orange	#ff9966 Another Orange	#ff99cc Light Magenta-Red	#ff99ff Very Light Magenta

#ffcc33 Deep Yellow / Orangey	#ffcc66 Faded Yellow / Orangey	#ffcc99 Light Caramel / Brown	#ffcccc Very Light Red

CYAN AND YELLOW ONLY
#33ff66 Strong Green on Cyan	#33ff99 Green on Cyan	#33ffcc Deep Cyan	#33ffff Lighter Cyan

#66ff33 Green-Yellow on Cyan	#66ff99 Green on Cyan 2nd	#66ffcc Cyanish	#66ffff Even Lighter Cyan

#99ff33 Green Colour	#99ff66 Dark Green Colour	#99ffcc Light Cyan-Green	#99ffff Very Light Cyan

#ccff33 Green-Yellow	#ccff66 Faded Green-Yellow	#ccff99 Light Yellow-Green	#ccffff Almost Unreadable Cyan

CYAN AND MAGENTA ONLY
#3366ff Blue-Cyan	#3399ff Dark Cyan	#33ccff Deep Cyan 2nd	#33ffff Lighter Cyan

#6633ff Blue-Magenta	#6699ff Dark Cyan-Blue	#66ccff Faded Cyan 2nd	#66ffff Even Lighter Cyan

#9933ff Dark Magenta 3rd	#9966ff Dark Magenta-Blue	#99ccff Light Cyan-Blue	#99ffff Very Light Cyan

#cc33ff Deep Magenta 2nd	#cc66ff Faded Magenta 2nd	#cc99ff Light Magenta-Blue	#ccccff Lilac

EVERYTHING ELSE
#333333 Dark Gray	#333366 Dark Lavender	#333399 Periwinkle	#3333cc Baby Blue

#336633 Forest Green	#336666 Sea Green	#336699 Sea Blue	#3366cc Dark Sky Blue

#339933 Grass Green	#339966 Leafy Green	#339999 Light Sea Green	#3399cc Light Turquoise

#33cc33 Vibrant Green	#33cc66 Algae Green	#33cc99 Aqua Green	#33cccc Light Aqua

#663333 Dark Chocolate Brown	#663366 Deep Purple	#663399 Dark Purple	#6633cc Violet Navy

#666633 Very Dark Green	#666666 Medium Gray	#666699 Light Navy	#6666cc Faded Blue

#669933 Muddy Green	#669966 Green-Gray	#669999 Blue-Gray	#6699cc Pale Baby Blue

#66cc33 Pale Green 2nd	#66cc66 Washed Green	#66cc99 Faint Green	#66cccc Pale Aqua

#993333 Reddish Brown	#993366 Dark Magenta 4th	#993399 Light Violet	#9933cc Light Purple

#996633 Light Brown	#996666 Iron-oxide Brown	#996699 Gray Violet	#9966cc Mid Violet

#999933 Green-Ochre	#999966 Dark Ochre	#999999 Light Gray	#9999cc Faded Periwinkle

#99cc33 Electric Green	#99cc66 Pale Grass Green	#99cc99 Gray-Green	#99cccc Gray Aqua

#cc3333 Red-Orange 2nd	#cc3366 Red-Violet	#cc3399 Magenta-Violet	#cc33cc Vivid Violet

#cc6633 Reddish Orange	#cc6666 Reddish	#cc6699 Pinkish Violet	#cc66cc Mid Violet

#cc9933 Tan Orange	#cc9966 Caramel	#cc9999 Faint Magenta-Gray	#cc99cc Mid Periwinkle

#cccc33 Faded Ochre	#cccc66 Pale Yellow-Green	#cccc99 Mid Green-Gray	#cccccc Really Light Gray

Background colour changer

By courtesy of www.ctpc.org/nltr1202/pl1202.htm -- Be CAREFUL with your mouse cursor! THE so-called SAFE COLOURS (above): Paul Lujan when at Harvard displayed these 216 colours on the World Wide Web, because in those days some browsers and/or operating system could only be relied on to give true colour renditions of these "safe colours". Finding Paul Lujan's website about colours seems to be impossible now. (Because he had graduated, around July 2000 Paul was losing his Website address, but he planned to re-start at another Web address.)

THE NAMED COLOURS

THE NAMED COLOURS in alphabetical order from the list and codes in book Martin & Davis, Project Cool…, 1997, pp 221-22

aliceblue f0f8ff	antiquewhite faebd7	aqua / cyan 00ffff	aquamarine 7fffd4	azure f0ffff	beige f5f5dc	bisque ffe4c4
black #000000	blanchedalmond ffebcd	blue 0000ff	blueviolet 8a2be2	brown a52a2a	burlywood deb887	cadetblue 5f9ea0
chartreuse #7fff00	chocolate d2691e	coral ff7f50	cornflowerblue 6495ed	cornsilk fff8dc	crimson dc143c	cyan / aqua 00ffff
darkblue 00008b	darkcyan 008b8b	darkgoldenrod b8b60b	darkgray a9a9a9	darkgreen 006400	darkkhaki 006400	dark magenta 8b008b
darkolivegreen 556b2f	darkorange ff8c00	darkorchid 9932cc	darkred 8b0000	darksalmon e9967a	darkseagreen 8fbc8f	darkslateblue 483d8b
darkslategray 2f4f4f	darkturquoise 00ced1	darkviolet 9400d3	deeppink ff1493	deepskyblue 00bfff	dimgray 696969	dodgerblue 1e90ff
firebrick b22222	floralwhite fffaf0	forestgreen 228b22	fuchsia/magenta ff00ff	gainsboro dcdcdc	ghostwhite f8f8ff	gold ffd700
goldenrod daa520	gray 808080	green 008000	greenyellow adff2f	honeydew f0fff0	hotpink ff69b4	indigo 4b0082
ivory fffff0	khaki f0e68c	lavender e6e6fa	lavenderblush fff0f5	lawngreen 7cfc00	lemonchiffon fffacd	lightblue add8e6
lightcoral f08080	lightcyan e0ffff	lightgoldenrod yellow fafad2	lightgreen 90ee90	lightgray d3d3d3	lightpink ffb6c1	lightsalmon ffa07a
lightseagreen 20b2aa	lightskyblue 87cefa	lightslategray 778899	lightsteelblue b0c4de	lightyellow ffffe0	lime 00ff00	limegreen 32cd32
linen faf0e6	magenta/fuchsia ff00ff	maroon 800000 (looks brown)	mediumaqua marine 66cdaa	mediumblue 0000cd	medium orchid ba55d3	mediumpurple 9370db
mediumsea green 3cb371	mediumslate blue 7b68ae	mediumspring green 00fa9a	mediumturqu oise 48d1cc	mediumviolet red c71585	midnightblue 191970	mintcream f5fffa
mistyrose ffe4e1	moccasin ffe4b5	navajowhite ffdead	navy 000080	oldlace fdf5e6	olive 808000	olivedrab 6b8e23
orange ffa500	orangered ff4500	orchid da70d6	palegolden rod eee8aa	palegreen 98fb98	pale turquoise afeeee	paleviolet red db7093
papayawhip ffefd5	peachpuff ffdab9	peru cd853f	pink ffc0cd	plum dda0dd	powderblue b0e0e6	purple 800080
red ff0000	rosybrown bc8f8f	royalblue 4169e1	saddlebrown 8b4513	salmon fa8072	sandybrown f4a460	seagreen 2e8b57
seashell fff5ee	sienna a0522d	silver c0c0c0	skyblue 87ceed	slateblue 6a5acd	slategray 708090	snow fffafa
springgreen 00ff7f	steelblue 4682b4	tan d2b48c	teal 008080	thistle d8bfd8	tomato ff6437	turquoise 40e0d0
violet ee82ee	wheat f5deb3	white ffffff	whitesmoke f5f5f5	yellow ffff00	yellowgreen a9cd32	cornflower (unknown hex.)

Buttons to change the BACKGROUND COLOUR of this Webpage Idea from HTML Complete, 1999, Sybex, San Francisco, page 607.

THE OLD 16 BASIC COLOURS / COLORS
(All of these are official names) The history is that once computers' screens had graduated past just showing text on a background, the first step seems to be that one firm after another adopted 16 "Basic Colours". According to Brenda Frink and Michael Anderson (eds), HTML Complete, 1999, Sybex http://www.sybex.com , San Francisco, pages 967-8, the Basic Colours (Colors) are:

aqua / cyan #00ffff	black #000000	blue #0000ff	fuchsia/magenta #ff00ff	gray (grey) #808080	green #008000	lime #00ff00;
aqua / cyan #00ffff	black #000000	blue #0000ff	fuchsia/magenta #ff00ff	gray (grey) #808080	green #008000	lime #00ff00;
maroon #800000	navy #000080;	olive #808000	purple #800080	red #ff0000	silver #c0c0c0	teal #008080
maroon #800000	navy #000080	olive #808000	purple #800080	red #ff0000	silver #c0c0c0	teal #008080
white #ffffff	yellow #ffff00
white #ffffff	yellow #ffff00

   Note that "aqua" is also called "cyan," and "fuchsia" is also called "magenta". This and other books strongly recommend using the hexadecimal codes, and NOT the names.
   (Also note that 8 of the Basic Colours - gray, green, maroon, navy, olive, purple, silver and teal - are not in the so-called "Safe Colours", but can be assumed to be quite safe! They are in the "Named Colours," but let me stress again - hexadecimal codes are recommended.)
   In Elizabeth Castro's 2003 book HTML for the World Wide Web … she calls these 16 "Predefined Colors" (p 46), and the next group of 216 she calls "Web-Safe" or "Browser Safe" colors (p 85), but says that nearly everyone these days has browsers that can safely handle all colours. - added 22 Oct 05.
   Netscape Navigator pushed ahead with 216 "Safe Colours", other browsers had 256 colours, then the number of colours that could be handled rose amazingly to millions. Prudent web designers used to use the "safe colours" quite a lot, unless there was a special reason, such as the client having a special colour scheme. -- John Massam.
   THE OLD ADVICE: A safe palette is a palette containing 216 Red/Green/Blue (RGB) colours that are going to remain as stable as possible from one browser to another, between platforms, and at different monitor colour capacities and resolutions. If colours outside the safe palette are used, many potential Web site visitors will experience dithering. If you've asked for a soft pale yellow outside the safe palette, visitors might see that colour as bright neon! -- Adapted from Molly E. Holzschlag, as adapted by Michael Anderson (ed), HTML Complete, 1999, Sybex, San Francisco.
   You can view these colours against various backgrounds, by pressing the "buttons" on one of the Background Colour Changers, or passing your mouse cursor over the other.
   A quick note by Paul Lujan on nomenclature: Paul has tried to give these colours descriptive names, and modestly said the names were boring. He said they don't mean anything. (There were duplications and triplications of names, unfortunately. I have tried to rename these -- jcm 01 Jan 2001) For the "Everything Else" category, he had just named them what they looked like. In general, though, for example, "Green-Red" had more green than red, while "Red-Green" had more red than green, he said.
   John Massam's other notes: The background colour changer that I found in the book HTML Complete was added ~25 June 2000.
Regarding the nomenclature on Paul Lujan's original webpage, I had gone through some of the names, checking them against the names of the Named Colours (adopted by Netscape Navigator and by Internet Explorer), and finished more than a year later (!) The names in Paul Lujan's list were "unofficial names," but I made sure that the eight "official" colours conformed to their corresponding ten official names. The warnings about "Unsafe" Colours become less relevant every time advances in Operating Systems and Browsers occur. - jcm 25 & 26 June 2000, updated 03 July 2001.
   Please note: Aqua and Cyan are both coded the same in a book by Teresa Martin & Glenn Davis, The Project Cool Guide to HTML 1997, New York, John Wiley & Sons, pp 221-22. (Reason: two Browser firms gave the code different names!) And Fuchsia is the same as Magenta, for the same reason! - 29 June 2000. Learn more at the Project Cool Website at http://www.projectcool.com/ but you might have to be patient unless you have a fast uploading system. - jcm 06 Aug 2000.
   Today, 29 June 2000, I began inserting rectangles of colour below the colour names that Paul Lujan had produced, so that the colours can be judged for Backgrounds and similar. I completed the rectangles today 16 July 2000. I doubled the depth of the rectangles today 28 May 2001.
   Also I completed putting in the <tr valign=top> to make the top of each row line up evenly. 29 June 2000 (and other dates) -- J. Massam
   Another quick note on categorisation: Paul Lujan also put the colors into more-or-less arbitrary categories -- this was mainly for his convenience, so that he wouldn't leave anything out. "If it helps you, so much the better," he said.
   Where you see colour codes and names that are smaller than the others and with no colour panel beneath, this is a repetition, which I placed in that series. Paul Lujan had deliberately omitted them (because they had already been displayed), but I decided for my own satisfaction to show them, but in a way that showed they were deliberate duplications / insertions. -- J. Massam 24 Oct 00.

Buttons to change the BACKGROUND COLOUR of this Webpage Idea from HTML Complete, 1999, Sybex, San Francisco, page 607.

Go the top of the page
Back to the index of samples
   Paul Lujan's color (colour) page used to be at http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~plujan/colors.html (but because his course then was ending, his website was being dismantled June 2000 and was not responding from late June 2000). However, possibly re-discovered on 7 Feb 2003 at http://bantha.org/~plujan/colors.htm so tried new e-mail plujan@post.harvard.edu . ONE-WORD NAMES: If you insist on using the Names instead of the Hexadecimal Code, please note that each name is ONE WORD, even if displayed above as two or more fragments. It is strongly urged that you use the Hexadecimal Codes, with the letters in lower-case, i.e., not using Capital letters, to make your Webpages compatible with XML and XHTML.
   The NAMED COLOURS chart above was devised from the list and codes in the book by Teresa Martin & Glenn Davis, The Project Cool Guide to HTML, 1997, John Wiley & Sons, New York, pp 221-22. Martin and Davis are the co-founders of the Project Cool™ website at http://www.projectcool.com/
   Aqua and Cyan are both coded the same in the book (Reason: two Browser firms gave the code different names!) AND Fuchsia is the same as Magenta, for the same reason!
   (Theoretically, Silver #c0c0c0 (use zeros, not Os) (i.e., Grey/Gray) was the background colour of any Webpage unless a Background Colour was coded - 31 Aug 1999. But in reality by late 1999 the later versions of N.N. and I.E. supply the background colour as White #ffffff if none is specified. - 26 June 2000)
   Please use the Hexadecimal codes (#f00f8f and so on, not forgetting the hash "#" symbol) for the colours, not the Names, because on some older Browsers the names will NOT cause any colour at all to show, but most old Browsers will make some attempt to show a colour if you use the codes. - jcm 16 Jul 2000

SUGGESTED BACKGROUND COLOURS and BGCOLORs for WEBPAGES, TABLES, HIGHLIGHTED LINES, etc.
collected and devised by John C. Massam

These are LIGHT COLOURS or PASTELS that, used as Background Colours (BGCOLOR) for Webpages and Tables, or BACKGROUND in other uses, are light enough so as not to interfere with ordinary Size 3 (12 point) unbolded Times New Roman when printing out from some NETSCAPE Browsers, depending on what Printer is used. (NAMES without a precursor word are Official "Named Colours".)

OTHER TINTS (Names NOT Official), including some from David Siegel's website around 9 Oct 1997, created on this webpage 2003. These have been included in the following Recommended Background Colours.

And, a small selection of Elizabeth CASTRO TINTS (Names NOT Official), from her "COLOR TABLE" of 234 colours in HTML for the World Wide Web, 5th edition, 2003, and in the 6th edition 2007, ( www.cookwood. com/html ) are in a SEPARATE TABLE below, created on 23 Oct 07.

WHITE APPEARANCE (as printed in B & W off Netscape 4.78 on some Printers):

ivory fffff0 (Siegel) light yellow fffff2 white ffffff blank blank blank blank

BLUE: Nil ; FAWN: (see Yellow) ; GREEN: Nil ; GREY (gray): Nil ; MAUVE: Nil ; PINK: Nil ; YELLOW: ivory fffff0 , (Siegel) light yellow fffff2 ; WHITE: white ffffff

VERY PALE DOT BACKGROUND, or White off Netscape (in B & W) on some Printers:

azure f0ffff
floralwhite fffaf0 snow fffafa honeydew f0fff0 (Siegel) minty green #eefffa mintcream f5fffa ghostwhite f8f8ff

(Siegel) pink fff5ff
(Safe) yellow ffffcc lightyellow ffffe0 blank blank blank blank

BLUE: azure f0ffff ; FAWN: floralwhite fffaf0, snow fffafa ; GREEN: honeydew f0fff0, (Siegel) minty green eefffa , mintcream f5fffa ; GREY (gray): Nil ; MAUVE: ghostwhite f8f8ff (and see Siegel pink) ; PINK: (Siegel) pink fff5ff ; YELLOW: "Safe Colour" yellow ffffcc , lightyellow ffffe0

REASONABLE BACKGROUND DOT APPEARANCE (in B & W) off Netscape on many Printers:

aliceblue f0f8ff
lightcyan e0ffff antiquewhite faebd7 beige f5f5dc blanchedalmond ffebcd cornsilk fff8dc linen faf0e6

oldlace fdf5e6 seashell fff5ee (Siegel) grey (gray) eeeeee whitesmoke f5f5f5 lavenderblush fff0f5 lemonchiffon fffacd lightgoldenrod yellow fafad2

BLUE: aliceblue #f0f8ff, lightcyan e0ffff ; FAWN: antiquewhite faebd7, beige f5f5dc, blanchedalmond ffebcd, cornsilk fff8dc, linen faf0e6, oldlace fdf5e6, seashell fff5ee ; GREEN: Nil ; GREY (gray): (Siegel) grey eeeeee, whitesmoke f5f5f5 ; MAUVE: lavenderblush fff0f5 ; PINK: Nil ; YELLOW: lemonchiffon fffacd, lightgoldenrodyellow fafad2

Elizabeth CASTRO 2003 TINTS - HTML for the World Wide Web, 5th edition, 2003, ( www.cook wood. com/html ) . NAMES NOT OFFICIAL. PINK: fdedf2; PINK-MAUVE f4e8f0; VIOLET: eae4ef; ? INDIGO ebecf6; BLUE ebf5fc; GREEN-BLUE ebf4f3; GREEN ebf4ea; PALE GREEN f5f8ec; YELLOW fffded; (BROWN at far left) ORANGE fff5e8; ORANGE-PINK feede3; PINK AGAIN feedea; GREY ececec. (adopted 03 May 06; to this webpage 23 Oct 07)

(Castro) pink fdedf2 (Castro) pink-mauve f4e8f0 (Castro) violet: eae4ef (Castro) ? indigo ebecf6 (Castro) blue ebf5fc (Castro) green-blue ebf4f3 (Castro) green ebf4ea

(Castro) pale green f5f8ec (Castro) yellow fffded (Castro) orange fff5e8 (Castro) orange- pink feede3 (Castro) pink again feedea (Castro) grey (gray) ececec blank

VARIOUS OTHER COLOURS FOR OTHER USES to be inserted as discovered. Heading with GREY background could use eeeeee; GREY LETTERING on white background, try #999999 or 808080;
BEIGE (Official name) for Panels such as in certain news media, use beige f5f5dc
YELLOW (Official name) Highlighter, using yellow ffff00 ; If this is too strong, use this ffff33 , this ffff66 , this ffff99 , or (Safe) yellow ffffcc

In the following chart, the first line is the colour in Boldface, the second row is normal, and the third is as a background patch.

(Named) white smoke f5f5f5 (Castro) grey (gray) ececec (Unnamed) eeeeee (Safe) grey (gray) cccccc (Named) silver c0c0c0 (Safe) grey (gray) 999999 (Named) gray 808080

(Named) white
smoke f5f5f5 (Castro) grey (gray) ececec (Unnamed) grey (gray) eeeeee (Safe) grey (gray) cccccc (Named) silver c0c0c0 (Safe) grey (gray) 999999 (Named) gray 808080

(Named) white
smoke f5f5f5 (Castro) grey (gray) ececec (Unnamed) grey (gray) eeeeee (Safe) grey (gray) cccccc (Named) silver c0c0c0 (Safe) grey (gray) 999999 (Named) gray 808080

(Safe) grey (gray) 666666 (Safe) grey (gray) 333333 \\ \\ \\ \\ (Named) beige f5f5dc

(Safe) grey (gray) 666666 (Safe) grey (gray) 333333 \\ \\ \\ \\ (Named) beige f5f5dc

(Safe) grey (gray) 666666 (Safe) grey ( gray) 333333 \\ \\ \\ \\ (Named) beige f5f5dc

Internet Explorer, as usually set up, does not print the Background Colours of either the Webpage nor inside Tables. This has occasional disadvantages. But Netscape 4.78 did print Table backgrounds, and in Black and White Netscape 4.78 attempted to show this by dotted representations. Out of deference to such Netscape users, I recommend using colours as above, or similar colours from the Safe Colours, for the Background Colours in Tables. Neither I.E. nor N.N., as usually set up, when printing in B & W try to print dotted representations of the BGCOLOR from the BODY Tag.

Buttons to change the BACKGROUND COLOUR of this Webpage Idea from HTML Complete, 1999, Sybex, San Francisco, page 607.

Background colour changer

By courtesy of www.ctpc.org/nltr1202/pl1202.htm -- Be CAREFUL with your mouse cursor!

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This Webpage shows the so-called SAFE COLOURS (216), the NAMED COLOURS (140 names for 138 colours), and the old BASIC COLOURS (16), and MASSAM'S RECOMMENDED BACKGROUND COLOURS.
Another website's Named Colours is "Netscape Colour Table -- Using Colour Names & Codes", at: http://www.yukonalaska.com/html/colorchart.html
Colour charts (234 shades) plus 16 "Predefined Colors" (the Basic Colours) are shown on the back cover foldover of HTML for the World Wide Web, Fifth Edition, with XHTML and CSS, Visual Quickstart Guide, 2003, Elizabeth Castro www.cookwood.com, Peachpit Press www.peachpit.com, Berkeley (CA, USA), and in the Sixth Edition published 2007.
The SAFE COLOUR SAMPLES section was adapted from http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~plujan/colors-whitebg.html (dismantled ~June 2000) on 25 June 2000, re-organised and put in the document numeration series 01 Jan 2001, "THE NAMED COLOURS" adapted from Teresa Martin & Glenn Davis, The Project Cool Guide to HTML, 1997, copied from "excolournames.htm" on 21 Oct 05 was added to this webpage on 21 Oct 05, "COLOR TABLE" of some shades selected from Elizabeth Castro, 2003, HTML for the World Wide Web, 5th ed., was added on 23 Oct 07, "MASSAM'S SUGGESTED BACKGROUND COLOURS" collected and devised by John C. Massam was given a clickable anchor on 23 Oct 07, last modified on 04 May 2012
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