CSS is not understood). Therefore, the future webmaster simply needs to study HTML tools that allow you to change color, for example, in order to make bright and colorful e-mail newsletters that will attract the attention of the site's target audience.

This post is quite lengthy, but from it you will learn about all the technical features of working with color using HTML. We will begin the recording by understanding the question: why do we need to highlight certain elements of an HTML page with color? Then we'll talk about the RGB model, which allows you to set colors in HTML using special codes (along the way, we'll look at decimal color codes and hexadecimal HTML color values). Also from this post you will learn about the color palette, and also understand why there is no palette in HTML. And at the end of this publication there will be examples of changing background color, text and links.

Using colors in HTML

Website pages would be boring and uninteresting without images, as we talked about earlier and in great detail. But images have one significant disadvantage: each image is an additional one and, accordingly, an additional load on the hosting.

I would like to note that I did not use a single image to design my WordPress blog; the layout was completely designed using color. Just the same Today we’ll talk about colors in HTML.. Colors in HTML are used for different purposes, for example, we can design website layouts by highlighting certain items with one color or another.

With the help of color, we can focus the attention of our visitors on a particular text or block of the site. Note that it is also determined using color in such a way that the user can understand: which link he has already clicked on, which link he has not yet visited, and which HTML page he is currently on.

Be careful using colors to design HTML documents, not all colors go together and not every color will be pleasing to your website visitors. But you’d better ask web designers about these subtleties; this article will help you understand the technical features that allow you to control the color of HTML page elements.

But you should not forget that the design should be separated from the content, so it is better to use CSS to manipulate color on HTML pages, but we will talk about this in another post. Now we'll see What tools does HTML have for controlling color on site pages?.

In the IT industry, there are many color models for color manipulation. The most widely used color representation model is the RGB model. We will talk about some of the features of this model here, and there will be a separate publication for a more detailed introduction to RGB. Below you will find a list of color models used in IT (not just HTML and CSS):

1. RGB model. This model has become very widespread and is perhaps one of the most convenient and common ways to manipulate the color of HTML elements.
2. Model RGBA. This model is very similar to the RGB model, but includes an alpha color channel. The special feature of the RGBA model is that it allows you to adjust not only the color of the HTML element, but also its transparency due to the presence of an alpha channel. The RGBA model was added to CSS3 and is not supported by older browsers.
3. Model HSL. The peculiarity of the HSL model is that we set the color using its parameters: hue, flatness and lightness. This model is somewhat more difficult to understand than the RGB model.
4. Model HSLA. This model is very similar to the HSL model, but just like the RGBA model, it allows you to work with the alpha color channel, so using HSLA we can set not only the color of an HTML element on the page, but also its transparency.
5. Model HSV (HSB). This model should not be confused with the HSL model. Note that the first four models can be used in HTML or CSS to design web pages, but the HSV model cannot. The HSV was designed by one of the founders of Pixar in 1978 and is very similar to the HSL.
6. Model CMY or CMYK. This model is used in all color printers for printing. The CMYK model is based on the rule that printing occurs on white sheets of paper. Any CMYK color is obtained by mixing Cyan (pale blue, turquoise), Magenta (magenta) and yellow. Each color in the CMY model has an opacity characteristic (amount of ink), measured as a percentage. But in addition to the three colors listed, the CMYK model also uses black.

All of the above color models are hardware dependent, that is, if you set the color of an HTML element using the RGB or HSL model, then it is impossible to say with certainty what exact shade of color a visitor to your site will see, since the monitors of all users are different and they convey colors differently. Also note that all of the above models are based on the RGB model and any color specified in any of the models (except HSLA and RGBA due to the presence of an alpha channel) can be converted to RGB.

If we talk about hardware-independent color transfer models, then it is worth noting the LAB model. So, we took a little break from working with color in HTML by getting acquainted with some color models. Note that browsers “understand” only the first four models: HSL, RGB, HSLA and RGBA. Therefore, we can only control the color of HTML elements using these models.

How the color of an HTML element is formed: some features of the RGB model

Let's figure it out how the color of an HTML element is formed and with some features of the RGB model. Note that we will talk about the RGB model, as well as other models that are used to design web pages, a little later in separate posts.

So, the RGB model stands for Red, Green, Blue. The RGB model is based on the principle of additivity. This principle is that to obtain any color, color is added to black. For a better understanding, imagine that your screen is a black wall and you have three spotlights: the first one shines red, the second one shines green, and the third one shines blue. You can adjust the brightness of each spotlight using a ruler with numbers from 0 to 255. Accordingly, if you set the spotlight to zero, it turns off and does not shine; if the value is 255, then the spotlight produces the brightest color possible.

Thus, it turns out that if you shine a red and a green spotlight on the same point, then you will notice a yellow spot on a black wall. If you combine red and blue, you get purple, and if you combine green and blue, the light spot on a black wall will be Cyan, but if you point all three spotlights at one point, the light spot will be white.

The principle described above underlies the RGB model and is used to manipulate colors in HTML elements on a page in a browser.

HTML attributes for changing the color of elements: the background color of the element and the color of the text inside the element

Used to make page elements unique. Using HTML attributes we can manipulate the color of elements:

1. HTML attribute color. This attribute allows you to change the color of the text inside the HTML element. The attribute can take values ​​in the form of HTML color names and RGB model codes in hexadecimal and decimal notations. The color attribute is a unique HTML attribute that allows you to change the color of text inside some HTML elements.
2. HTML text attribute. This attribute is a unique tag attribute . Tag along with tags And form . If you remember, inside the container elements are placed that are then displayed by the browser in the viewing area. The text attribute allows you to specify Default text color for entire HTML page.
3. HTML attribute bgcolor. It is also a unique HTML attribute and allows you to change the background color of some HTML elements.
4. HTML attribute vlink. This attribute is unique and applies only to the tag to change the color of a link that the user has already visited.
5. HTML attribute alink. This attribute is also unique and only applies to the tag . The alink attribute changes the color of the active HTML link.
6. HTML link attribute. The link attribute is used only in conjunction with a tag and serves to change the color of HTML page links that the user has not yet visited.

Please note: using attributes to change the color of HTML elements is not recommended, as there are cascading style sheets that allow you to separate the design of a web page from its content.

Using Decimal Color Codes in HTML

So, we talked about the fact that you can set the brightness of the color of the spotlight using a special ruler on which there are numbered drawings from 0 to 255. Now let’s see how this will help us change the color of HTML elements. The thing is that we can change the color of the text inside an HTML element or the background color in HTML using decimal code as follows:

If you create an HTML document in which the body container is described, as in the example, you will see:

1. The background color of the HTML document is now green: bgcolor=”rgb (0,255,0)”.
2. The text color of the HTML page will turn blue: text=”rgb (0,0,255)”.
3. The HTML color of a link that the user has not visited will be white: link=”rgb (255,255,255)”.
4. The colors of the link that is currently open will be black: alink=”rgb (0,0,0)”.
5. And the color of the HTML link that has already been visited will be red: vlink=”rgb (255,0,0)”.

Please note: no one forbids you to adjust the “spotlight power” at your discretion, you can set HTML color, for example, this way:

rgb(94, 85, 50)

And get the color of childish surprise. This is the peculiarity, flexibility and convenience of the RGB model. Your monitor is a black wall with spotlights shining on it, and you can adjust the power of these spotlights and create all kinds of background colors, text and links using HTML attributes in the decimal notation system, or, you can also say: using decimal color codes.

In fact It's wrong to say decimal color codes in HTML, it would be more correct to say RGB decimal color codes, since this model is used not only for designing web pages in HTML and CSS.

Hexadecimal HTML color values

Setting the color of HTML elements using decimal codes of the RGB model is not very convenient (and at the moment, not all browsers support this method of color manipulation), since the recording will not be the most compact; it is much more convenient to set the color of HTML elements using hexadecimal values. In the image below you can see how decimal values ​​are converted to hexadecimal.

For those who are not familiar with the hexadecimal number system, a little explanation should be given so that you can easily manipulate the color of HTML elements using hexadecimal RGB model codes. Firstly, the decimal number system is so named because any number can be obtained by a combination of ten digits (terminology is important: there is a difference between a number and a digit): 0, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.

In the hexadecimal number system, any number can be written using a combination of sixteen digits: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, a, b, c, d, e, f. For ease of understanding, you can assume that a is ten and f is fifteen. For example, the number sixteen would be written in hexadecimal as follows: 10. And the number 255 would be written as ff.

Now let's see how we can set the color of HTML elements using hexadecimal values, let's repeat our previous example, replacing the decimal color codes with their hexadecimal counterparts:

< body alink = ”#000000” link=”#ffffff” vlink=”ff0000” bgcolor=”#00ff00” text=”#0000ff”>

Note: writing color in HTML in hexadecimal format is somewhat more compact than in decimal, that's the first one. Second: the power of each spotlight is set by numbers from 0 to 255. To write the number 255 requires two digits in hexadecimal format (ff = 250), so the brightness of each color channel (our spotlights are correctly called the color channel, color channel) is set by two digits from 0 to f.

Please note: the brightness of each color channel is set separately, but if we imagine that this is a single number, then the maximum possible number in the hexadecimal number system of the RGB model is ffffff, it will give us white, and in the decimal system it is: 16,777,215. This number of colors and shades allows you to set/use the RGB model. This number comes from the fact that each color channel has 256 brightness values ​​(from 0 to 255), respectively: 256 * 256 * 256 = 16,777,215.

Hexadecimal HTML color values ​​are more compact and clearer, most web designers and layout designers use hexadecimal values ​​to manipulate color in HTML, so we recommend that you do not get used to the decimal form of color notation, but immediately use hexadecimal.

It is clear that at first it will be difficult for a novice designer or layout designer to navigate the hexadecimal form of color notation, so almost any graphic editor has a so-called color palette, which allows you to select the desired color and get its code for different color models in different number systems.

Some text editors, such as , have palette extensions that are very handy when you want to quickly select a color and change it. I can’t say anything about this in this regard.

Color names in HTML

HTML attributes can take as values not only decimal codes and hexadecimal values, but also special flower names. Changing the color of HTML elements using its name is not a good idea. Firstly, behind the color name in HTML lies the RGB model code, and secondly, each browser displays the color of the HTML element specified by the name differently, it depends only on the desire of the browser developers.

That's why using a color name in HTML is not recommended. The RGB model is hardware dependent, and the color specified by the name depends on the browser and even its version. Let's try to set the color of the HTML page elements using the name:

< body alink = ”black ”link = ”#white” vlink=”red” bgcolor=”green” text=”blue”>

As you understand, there are a lot of colors and shades. It’s worth noting here that HTML attributes do not allow you to set a gradient; CSS has this option, but we’ll talk about that in another post. And many colors in HTML have names. You can find a table of color names in HTML and their RGB codes on my website.

The table above shows what color the HTML element will get if you specify it using the name. This table contains 16 colors and their names that are approved by the W3C and should be displayed the same in any browser. But in fact, in HTML you can use about 200 color names that are supported by major browsers, such as: Opera, Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer (this statement is very controversial about the latter).

HTML color palette

In fact there is no color palette in HTML. Let's remember the definition of the word palette. A palette is a small thin board of a quadrangular or oval shape on which the artist mixes paints and obtains all kinds of colors. Sometimes a hole is made in the palette for the thumb to make it comfortable to hold. You will find an image of the palette below. That's why there is no palette in HTML.

But in various text editors there is color palette plugins that help quickly select the color of an HTML element. There is also a color palette in graphic editors, because it is not very convenient and fun for a designer to sit and calculate: what color will come out at this or that brightness of this or that channel. In the picture below you can see the simplest palette of the Paint editor.

Note that many color palette modules and plugins allow you to obtain a color code not only in the RGB/RGBA format, but also in the format of other models. Remember that there is no palette in HTML, well, unless you are an artist to the core and you call the color palette of the HTML page those colors that were used to decorate it (after all, sometimes a palette refers to the colors that a particular artist uses, or the colors that were used in the creation of a particular painting).

Learning to change text color in HTML

We got a lot of theory about colors in HTML, let's get to practice and try work with colors of HTML elements. The first thing we will learn to do is change text color in HTML document using special attributes and tags. Open any editor and write the following code in it:

Learning to work with color in HTML

Changing the text color

To change the color of the text, we can use the unique attribute of the BODY text element, and we can also use the FONT element and its color attribute. This text will be grayed out.

< ! DOCTYPE html > < html lang = "ru-RU" > < head > < meta charset = "UTF-8" > < title >Changing the color of the text in the HTML document< / title > < link rel = "stylesheet" type = "text/css" href = "style.css" / > < / head > < body text = "#ff0000" > < h1 > < font color = "rgb(0,255,0)" >Learning to work with color in HTML< / font > < / h1 > < h2 > < font color = "yellow" >Changing the text color< / font > < / h2 > < p >To change the text color we can use a unique element's BODY text attribute, and also use the FONT element < / body > < / html >

I will save this file as color.html and advise you not to forget about . Recording color in the decimal number system is not supported by Chrome, Firefox and Opera, but IE understands this color notation and highlights the HTML header in green:

The correct thing to say is not changing the text color in HTML, but changing the font color in HTML. About

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In HTML, color is specified in one of two ways: using hexadecimal code and by the name of certain colors. The method based on the hexadecimal number system is predominantly used, as it is the most universal.

Hexadecimal colors

HTML uses hexadecimal numbers to specify colors. The hexadecimal system, unlike the decimal system, is based, as its name suggests, on the number 16. The numbers will be as follows: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C , D, E, F. Numbers from 10 to 15 are replaced by Latin letters. In table 6.1 shows the correspondence between decimal and hexadecimal numbers.

Numbers greater than 15 in the hexadecimal system are formed by combining two numbers into one (Table 6.2). For example, the number 255 in decimal corresponds to the number FF in hexadecimal.

To avoid confusion in defining the number system, a hexadecimal number is preceded by a hash symbol #, for example #aa69cc. In this case, the case does not matter, so it is permissible to write #F0F0F0 or #f0f0f0.

A typical color used in HTML looks like this.

Here the background color of the web page is set to #FA8E47. The hash symbol # in front of a number means it is hexadecimal. The first two digits (FA) define the red component of the color, the third through fourth digits (8E) define the green component, and the last two digits (47) define the blue component. The end result will be this color.

F.A.

+

8E

+

47

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FA8E47

Each of the three colors - red, green and blue - can take values ​​from 00 to FF, resulting in a total of 256 shades. Thus, the total number of colors can be 256x256x256 = 16,777,216 combinations. A color model based on red, green and blue components is called RGB (red, green, blue; red, green, blue). This model is additive (from add - add), in which the addition of all three components forms the color white.

To make it easier to navigate hexadecimal colors, take into account some rules.

• If the values ​​of the color components are the same (for example: #D6D6D6), then the result will be a gray tint. The higher the number, the lighter the color, with values ​​ranging from #000000 (black) to #FFFFFF (white).
• A bright red color is formed if the red component is made maximum (FF) and the remaining components are set to zero. A color with a value of #FF0000 is the reddest possible red shade. The same is true for green (#00FF00) and blue (#0000FF).
• Yellow (#FFFF00) is made by mixing red and green. This is clearly visible on the color wheel (Fig. 6.1), which presents the primary colors (red, green, blue) and complementary or additional ones. These include yellow, cyan and violet (also called magenta). In general, any color can be obtained by mixing colors close to it. Thus, cyan (#00FFFF) is obtained by combining blue and green.

Rice. 6.1. Color circle

Colors based on hexadecimal values ​​do not have to be empirically selected. For this purpose, a graphic editor that can work with different color models, for example, Adobe Photoshop, is suitable. In Fig. Figure 6.2 shows the window for selecting a color in this program; the resulting hexadecimal value of the current color is outlined with a line. You can copy and paste it into your code.

Rice. 6.2. Window for choosing colors in Photoshop

Web colors

If you set the monitor's color rendering quality to 8 bits (256 colors), then the same color can be displayed differently in different browsers. This is due to the way graphics are displayed, when the browser works with its own palette and cannot show a color that is not in its palette. In this case, the color is replaced by a combination of pixels of other, close to it, colors that imitate the given one. To ensure that the color remains the same across different browsers, a palette of so-called web colors was introduced. Web colors are those colors for which each component - red, green and blue - is set to one of six values ​​- 0 (00), 51 (33), 102 (66), 153 (99), 204 (CC), 255 (FF). The hexadecimal value of this component is indicated in parentheses. The total number of colors from all possible combinations gives 6x6x6 - 216 colors. An example web color is #33FF66.

The main feature of web color is that it appears the same in all browsers. At the moment, the relevance of web colors is very small due to the improvement in the quality of monitors and the expansion of their capabilities.

Colors by name

To avoid having to remember a set of numbers, you can use the names of commonly used colors instead. In table 6.3 shows the names of popular color names.

Table 6.3. Names of some colors

Color name	Color	Description	Hexadecimal value
black		Black	#000000
blue		Blue	#0000FF
fuchsia		Light purple	#FF00FF
gray		Dark grey	#808080
green		Green	#008000
lime		Light green	#00FF00
maroon		Dark red	#800000
navy		Dark blue	#000080
olive		Olive	#808000
purple		Dark purple	#800080
red		Red	#FF0000
silver		Light gray	#C0C0C0
teal		Blue-green	#008080
white		White	#FFFFFF
yellow		Yellow	#FFFF00

It doesn't matter whether you specify a color by its name or by using hexadecimal numbers. These methods are equal in their effect. Example 6.1 shows how to set the background and text colors of a web page.

Example 6.1. Background and text color

Example text

In this example, the background color is set using the bgcolor attribute of the tag , and the text color through the text attribute. For variety, the text attribute is set to a hexadecimal number, and the bgcolor attribute is set to the reserved keyword teal .

Computer games are one of the most popular ways to spend your free time. Immersing ourselves in the world of a video game, we forget about real problems and troubles, relax and have fun. And if this is an online game or a game in multiplayer mode, then its main advantage is that here you can meet many people from all over the world and find not just like-minded people, but also best friends. Want to know how game settings, down to the color in MTA, can affect your interactions with other players? Read on!

Features of the multiplayer mode

Have you ever wondered: how to adjust colors in MTA or some other game? None of the people who have ever had the opportunity to play an online game with a large number of players will deny that they want to show themselves in the best light in front of others. You can show off your character’s special, expensive things, stand out in your knowledge of gaming terminology, or simply customize the interface of your game so that it works better than that of inexperienced gamers.

Colors in "MTA" - what do you need to know?

If we talk about one of the versions of the multiplayer mode of the game "GTA: San Andreas", "MTA", then color plays a very important role here. The ability to customize the color of your nickname in MTA is one of the best skills that every beginning player should acquire.

So, to set up your nickname color, go to the "MTA: SA" application and click on the Settings option, then select your name, and then enter the desired color code right before it. In "MTA" there is a large palette of colors for nicknames. In the article we have included sample palettes from which you can choose the shade you like.

Now you know how you can stand out and make your nickname different from the nicknames of beginners and inexperienced players. Bright, it will distinguish you from ordinary gamers and attract more attention to you. Enjoy your game!

Minecraft Codes colors, or Minecraft codes formatting, allow any player to add flowers and format text in every possible way directly in Minecraft. Color codes from &0-9 - to &a-f. Add them before your text. Messages from players can contain color codes that allow you to add color to your sentences.

Colors and formatting codes

The ampersand sign (&) followed by a hexadecimal number in messages signals the client to switch colors when displaying text. Additionally, text can be formatted with an & followed by a letter. You can add different colors to books, command blocks, server name, server description (motd), world names, signs, and even player names.

It's very easy to format your text in configs or in game using the color chart below. &r is used to reset all codes, i.e. &mAAA&rBBB will be displayed as AAA BBB.

We present a table of existing color codes in Minecraft for your convenience:

Code	Name	Technical Name	Symbol color				Symbol shadow color
			R	G	B	Hex	R	G	B	Hex
&0	Black	black	0	0	0	000000	0	0	0	000000
&1	Dark blue	dark_blue	0	0	170	0000AA	0	0	42	00002A
&2	Dark green	dark_green	0	170	0	00AA00	0	42	0	002A00
&3	Dark blue-green	dark_aqua	0	170	170	00AAA	0	42	42	002A2A
&4	Dark red	dark_red	170	0	0	AA0000	42	0	0	2A0000
&5	Dark purple	dark_purple	170	0	170	AA00AA	42	0	42	2A002A
&6	Gold	gold	255	170	0	FFAA00	42	42	0	2A2A00
&7	Grey	gray	170	170	170	AAAAAA	42	42	42	2A2A2A
&8	Dark grey	dark_gray	85	85	85	555555	21	21	21	151515
&9	Blue	blue	85	85	255	5555FF	21	21	63	15153F
&a	Green	green	85	255	85	55FF55	21	63	21	153F15
&b	Blue-green	aqua	85	255	255	55FFFF	21	63	63	153F3F
&c	Red	red	255	85	85	FF5555	63	21	21	3F1515
&d	Light purple	light_purple	255	85	255	FF55FF	63	21	63	3F153F
&e	Yellow	yellow	255	255	85	FFFF55	63	63	21	3F3F15
&f	White	white	255	255	255	FFFFFF	63	63	63	3F3F3F

Sometimes it is necessary underline, cross out, highlight any text. This is done using text formatting. It is used in exactly the same way as colors (we put before the text code, for example &lMinecraft = Minecraft.

For your convenience, below is a table of formatting codes:

Code	Name
&k	Magic text
&l	Thumbnail
&m	Strikethrough text
&n	Underlined text
&o	Italic text
&r	Text without formatting

Unfortunately, it is not yet possible to display taste sensations on the website. But this can be fully compensated with the help of colors. After all, html colors allow you to display any of millions of shades. So " colored pencils There are many more than seven in his set.

Color scheme in html

In html, color can be specified in several formats:

1. As a hexadecimal value – the code specified in the hexadecimal number system is used. Such color codes in html consist of three pairs of hexadecimal numbers. Each pair is responsible for the saturation of the shade with its primary color:

• The first numerical pair is responsible for the color red;
• The second pair is for the green color content;
• The latter is for its blue content.

A hash mark is placed at the beginning of the code (before the numbers). This is the hexadecimal color code. In addition to numbers from 1 to 9, this number system uses letters of the Latin alphabet (A, B, C, D, E, F).

For example, the white color code in html will look like #FFFFFF:

2. Keyword - HTML currently supports about 147 keywords. But not all of these words are unique. Some of them refer to the same color shade.

The color gray is represented by two keywords: gray and gray . Their hexadecimal code (HEX) is given by the same value #808080.

Example:

#808080

3. In RGB format - this color encoding in html is based on the use of three values, set in the range from 0 to 255. Each of them determines the saturation of the hue with one of the primary colors:

• R – red (red);
• G – green (green);
• B – blue (blue).

The color number in RGB format is written in the following form: rgb(0, 210, 100).

background-color:rgb(100,186,43)

4. In the RGBA format - it is an improved RGB format, where the fourth value specifies the transparency of the color as a decimal fraction from 0 to 1.

Usage example:

background-color:rgba(100,86,143,0.2)

background-color:rgba(100,86,143,0.5)

background-color:rgba(100,86,143,0.8)

background-color:rgba(100,86,143,1)

HTML color tables and color generators

With such a wide range of color setting formats, it's easy to get confused. Therefore, a special color table was invented. It provides 147 key names of color shades with compliance codes in all major color standards. Additionally, each field is equipped with a bar for visual color selection. One of these tables is presented on the website colorscheme.ru:

But even with this structuring of matching, choosing the right shade can be difficult. And it’s not a fact that the table of color codes will contain the one you need.

To get around this obstacle and make choosing the right shade as easy as possible, interactive web services have been developed. Their user interface may differ slightly from each other.

On the website html-color-codes.info the color generator looks like this:

And within the color-picker.appsmaster.co service, this tool is implemented a little differently:

The saturation of each color in the generator is set using special sliders. Visually, the shade is displayed by the color of the frame and rectangle on the left side. At the bottom, 3 fields display the color code in basic formats.

But the color generator is available not only on specialized sites. Almost all graphic editors are equipped with a similar tool. For example, Photoshop:

Safety precautions when working with color

And this was a long time ago, back in the era of video cards that supported only 256 colors. In those distant times, operating systems could only display a certain number of eight-bit shades without distortion.

Then a great table of safe colors was developed. It specified 216 shades that could be displayed without distortion in any of the browsers of that time. And to this day this " great manuscript» is still available on some resources:

Nowadays everything has changed. Therefore, all safety rules when working with color in html are completely canceled. After all, modern computer hardware supports more than 16 million different shades. And 216 safe colors have sunk into oblivion.

These data are fully confirmed by statistics. Judging by it, in 2014, only 0.5% of users have computers that support only 256 shades.

Basics of color harmony

Not all of us are endowed with a natural harmonious sense of taste. Therefore, choosing the right color can be a real challenge. But, praise be to science, she even managed to describe color harmony in the form of several schemes. All of them are based on the use of a color wheel. Schemes for harmonious color selection in html:

• Parallel color scheme - when both shades in the color wheel are parallel;
• Triadic scheme - all corners of a triangle are based on one of the colors;
• Monochromatic - when several close shades of the same color are selected;
• Analog is a more advanced version of the monochromatic circuit. In this case, shades of the same color are located at a certain distance.

The implementation of all these schemes is well presented within the paletton.com service. It allows you to easily select a harmonious color.