In web design, the incorporation of colors is very important, this is because of the fact that colors adds to the “life” of the website. Proper blending of colors in web design is important in order to make your presentation fun as well as professional looking.
Although image editors can provide a wide array of colors its place in web design is just limited, sometimes you need to add colors to your website design by way of the design layer using the Cascading Style Sheets. The incorporation of colors using Cascading Style Sheets is especially important when you try to add color to the website text or content.
Adding color to the text is done by using the color property of CSS. There are three ways on how you specify the values of the color property the first one is by using the English language, second is by using the RGB method and finally by using the hexadecimal method. Although it is easy to specify the color value by using the English method the web designer is limited as to the color choices. Using the other two methods may be the way to go however the problem is the numerous number of color combination and thus there is also a myriad type of numeric combinations. So how does one find the exact color and the corresponding code?
For the hexadecimal value using photoshop could give you the specific hexadecimal value for a particular color however if you do not have such application then you can resort to the RGB value and us Microsoft paint to know the specific RGB value for a particular color. The following are the steps that you need to do to identify the color you want in RGB.
1. Open Microsoft paint.
2. For the latest Microsoft paint click of edit colors.
3. Once the color palette pops-out you can already choose a color you want at the right panel.
4. Adjust the color according to what you desire.
5. Notice the Red, Green and Blue (RGB) values, these will be the values which you will utilise using the color property in CSS in RGB value.
Thus, you do not need to memorise the whole table of color values for your website design, you just need help from another application in this case it is the Microsoft paint.
