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How to find Web colors

The two most common ways to find Web colors are to use a color chart or an application like Photoshop Elements. You’ll also find a number of Web pages that allow you to choose Web colors and translate between rgb and hex codes. Let’s check out Photoshop Elements (most photo-editing applications offer the same functionality).

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Using an online color chart

You’ll also find some useful color charts on the Web. These charts typically display Web colors that are arranged according to a number of different criteria with their corresponding hex code. Using these colors is as easy as choosing the colors you want in your page and copying the hex codes into your CSS.

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Q: I heard that if I don’t use Web-safe colors, my pages will never look right on other browsers. Why haven’t we talked about Web-safe colors?


  

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