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The Dot.com.ph Guide to Colors

These are the sixteen old predefined colors. If these are the only colored things on the page and the numbered boxes below are all gray, then you are using a very old browser like Netscape Navigator 2.0. You should upgrade, since it's free, but the real thing to learn from this is that what appears on a web page is different to different browsers. Our computers have nice graphics cards and can control millions of colors, but the web being what it is today, you're actually more in control of your colors if you stick to simpler shades. Meanwhile, if you need to pick your colors and you have an old browser, click here.

silver	gray	maroon	green	navy	purple	olive	teal
white	black	red	lime	blue	magenta	yellow	cyan

This next table is 117 of the "non-dithering" colors. what this means is that on most browsers, and most screens,the colors here will not shift into other colors. What you see is what everyone will get, pretty much. The colors are generated by your computer - these boxes are not pictures, which is why they loaded so fast. We like these colors because they are simple that way. Since colors that get printed are different from colors that appear on screen, we like to use these 117 colors as the language for defining your basic colors, such as screen or cell background, colored text, and elements of your logo. For instance, you might say you want the background on your "staff" page to be color number 30, the heading font to be color number 104, and the green in your logo is number 54.There are more colors on the third table below.

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27
28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36
37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44	45
46	47	48	49	50	51	52	53	54
55	56	57	58	59	60	61	62	63
64	65	66	67	68	69	70	71	72
73	74	75	76	77	78	79	80	81
82	83	84	85	86	87	88	89	90
91	92	93	94	95	96	97	98	99
100	101	102	103	104	105	106	107	108
109	110	111	112	113	114	115	116	117

This table has a few other colors with names. As you can see, some of them don't look quite like what the name might suggest. However, the colors that you see are fairly stable on different computers, so you can feel secure when you specify one that it will look that way for everyone.

White	Red	Green	Blue	Magenta	Cyan	Yellow	Black	Aquamarine	Baker's Chocolate
Blue Violet	Brass	Bright Gold	Brown	Bronze	Bronze II	Cadet Blue	Cool Copper	Copper	Coral
Corn Flower Blue	Dark Brown	Dark Green	Dark Green Copper	Dark Olive Green	Dark Orchid	Dark Purple	Dark Slate Blue	Dark Slate Grey	Dark Tan
Dark Turquoise	Dark Wood	Dim Grey	Dusty Rose	Feldspar	Firebrick	Forest Green	Gold	Goldenrod	Grey
Green Copper	Green Yellow	Hunter Green	Indian Red	Khaki	Light Blue	Light Grey	Light Steel Blue	Light Wood	Lime Green
Mandarin Orange	Maroon	Medium Aquamarine	Medium Blue	Medium Forest Green	Medium Goldenrod	Medium Orchid	Medium Sea Green	Medium Slate Blue	Medium Spring Green
Medium Turquoise	Medium Violet Red	Medium Wood	Midnight Blue	Navy Blue	Neon Blue	Neon Pink	New Midnight Blue	New Tan	Old Gold
Orange	Orange Red	Orchid	Pale Green	Pink	Plum	Quartz	Rich Blue	Salmon	Scarlet
Sea Green	Semi-Sweet Chocolate	Sienna	Silver	Sky Blue	Slate Blue	Spicy Pink	Spring Green	Steel Blue	Summer Sky
Tan	Thistle	Turquoise	Very Dark Brown	Very Light Grey	Violet	Violet Red	Wheat	Yellow Green	White

OK, maybe the colors up top didn't quite do the trick. the image below is the standard 216 non-dithering colors. It is an image, though, and not a color generated by your screen, so again the colors are not going to be quite exact. Perhaps if we let Bill Gates take over everything we can really have absolute colors, but as things stand, it's a confusing world of plurality. Anyway, you can pick a color by selecting the row and column indicated.

And if all that still wasn't satisfying enough, you can tell us your Pantone colors.

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