HTML Color Tips - Color Chart in Hexadecimal value and color thumbnail

Color can be applied via HTML tags to fonts, borders and backgrounds and are defined by their Hexadecimal value or they standard name, and there is many times problems to define a specific color

So here I found this

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X11 Color Palette These are the colors defined by web browsers. A particular browser may not recognize all of these colors, but as of 2005 all modern general-use browsers support the full list. Again, you can use the color names instead of the hexadecimal value.

http://www.squidoo.com/colorhtml

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And Also The Color Spot at HTML Station

http://www.december.com/html/spec/colorspot.html

It has lots of links in reference to colors for computers

And includes a helpful and useful colorchart

Warms: red orange brown yellow yellowgreen
http://www.december.com/html/spec/color1.html

Greens: green teal
http://www.december.com/html/spec/color2.html

Blues: teal cyan blue
http://www.december.com/html/spec/color3.html

Purples: indigo purple violet pink red
http://www.december.com/html/spec/color4.html

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For example, this would ALSO help to avoid and possibly solve this "problem" of Purple VS Indigo and can help perhaps this shown here

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Betis wrote: I say vectors = purple. (just like the blue Curve color, but with a hue of 270)

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Indigo Ray wrote: no, not purple. Maybe indigo would look nice And no they're not too similar!

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Betis wrote: Too close to the Curve color! See, that's why I suggested purple, fool. This is the color I'm talking about:

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The two colors indigo and purple are both hues with a long history of cultural usage, and scientific debate. Both terms are used to describe specific colors and a range of shades.

see full information in this link below

The Color Indigo Vs. Purple

WIKIPEDIA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigo

HERE IS A COLOR CHART WITH HEX VALUES AND THE POSSIBLE NAMES

http://www.december.com/html/spec/color4.html

Here is cut out of the whole list found here





As Indigo Ray said, "And no they're not too similar" and looking at the examples above, is they are NOT too similar and clearly different.

If you use Google to make a search of Indigo VS purple you can see that there many that are confused with this