Template Colours

[austdata]

Where can I find out what the Hex numbers are that are used in the templates?

Cheers,

Mike

[lwyau]

Googling "html colors" should yield a plenty of references.

[austdata]

G'day Leh,
That was quick. I'm using www.december.com but there are so many shades of colours it's hard to match up.

So I take it that there's no hex list of colours used in the templates?

I keep at it then because I don't have a way to sample colours and display their hex code.

Cheers,

Mike

[lwyau]

A hex color notation describes a color in terms of RGB (red, green, and blue). Each color can have a value between 0 thru 255, thus yielding 16 million combinations. If someone makes a table showing all possible colors, it would have been 1.6 million entries, not a very practical thing to do.

What you really need is an image editing program. They typically comes with a color palette editor/manipulator showing you the color as you tweak the hex numbers.

Googling "html colors" typically yields a table of some representative colors, which should be quite adequate.

[austdata]

G'day Leh,
I spotted the very high number of colours here (http://www.december.com/html/spec/colorhslhex.html). Matching them is a pain.

I just hoped someone here had an existing pallet. Pity, I'll have to keep looking.

Cheers,

Mike

[jaxpa]

Hey,

If you are wanting to match the colours of an existing site(if I have read your thread correctly), then most image editing programs will have a colour picker, and once you select the colour into your palette, you should be able to get the hex number.

an example,(this is easier with two monitors or split screen), open up photoshop, and in another window, the page with the colour that you want to pick.

click the colour picker in photoshop and 'click and hold' the left mouse button some where in your image. Whilst still hloding the mouse button down, drag it onto the colour in the web page you want, and when you let go off the button, it will show in the photoshop pallete.

click the pallet, and the selection screen appears with the hex code in it!!!:)

not all image programs allow for this, but a screen capture of the page needed and pasting into the image editor of choice should yield similar results.

[austdata]

G'day Jaxpa,
I was hoping that between MS-Paint and Irfanview I could do just that but it failed. On the other hand you've given me am idea. I have a Linux box. There is surely going to be an image editor there that displays hex colours.

Thanks heaps,

Mike

[lwyau]

MS Paint > colors > edit colors > define custom colors. You can give a number between 0 and 255 for red, green and blue. When you find the color you want, write down the three numbers and convert them to hex. Here's a website for the conversion: http://www.statman.info/conversions/hexadecimal.html.

Once you get your hex numbers, string them up with red follow by green and then blue.

[NST Inc Designer]

You can do this with MS Paint.

Open MS Paint
Bring the template/website in question into your browser
Hit the print screen button
From MS Paint, Edit>Paste
Now take the color picker tool and click on the color you want
From the MS Paint Menu Colors>Edit Colors>Define Custom Colors

The color that is selected here should be the color you just picked and the RGB value is on the right. Visit the site Leh-Wen suggested and convert into hex code.

If you plan on doing this often you need to get yourself a good graphics editor, Photoshop, Corel PSP, etc.

[austdata]

Leh & Tim,
Thanks for that. I'll give it a go. Hopefully it's not something I'll be doing too often. I host 'em, don't normally build 'em.

Cheers,

Mike