This is just a follow up to my post about Crayola Colors. They do have their place on your blog and on your website. Here is a great resource that shows you all 120 Crayola colors, names and their corresponding hex codes!
All 120 Crayola Color Names and Hex Codes
Now, how is this important to your website or blog (or even your info product)?
Well, let’s say you have a favorite crayola color that you want use on your website or blog or in your product. You’d simply take a look at the Crayola Color Names and Hex Codes chart, find your favorite color name and grab the Hex Code. You will then use the Hex Code to specify the color on your website.
In my case, my favorite color would be Salmon. From the chart I see that Salmon has a Hex Code of FF9BAA. In web speak FF9BAA means “Salmon”. So, to use that color for the text in my WordPress blog post, I’d enter it like so:
Isn’t my Salmon colored text wonderful?
Basically what I did was first choose the “A”, or font color icon, then clicked “More Colors” to open the color picker. Then I entered #FF9BAA in the text box on the bottom. You will usually need to use a “#” as the first character when using Hex Codes. Then I clicked Apply to save my color choice.
Now if I wanted to use Salmon in a product that doesn’t use Hex Codes, like PowerPoint (sigh), then I would use the other options in the chart for the RGB color code. Most graphic programs allow you to enter in an RGB code – these allow you to tell how much red, green and blue the color you want to use contains. So the chart says that for Salmon, the RGB code is 255, 155, 170 (that means my color contains 255 of Red, 155 of Green and 170 of Blue). I would enter those values like this in PowerPoint or other graphic program that doesn’t take Hex Codes:
As you can see, there is no way you need to be stuck with the few colors you see when opening the font color icon – or trying to guess where the color you want is located in the color picker. You can be very specific and use your favorite Crayola colors 
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Gwen,
This is a cool way of finding colors. May I also recommend http://html-color-codes.info/ I use the lower when I want to change the color but keep it in the same “range” or check a color code to see what it is.
Thank you Gwen
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Thanks MJ!
There are so many great, useful tools for websites that it’s hard to keep track of everything. I like the way the site you shared give the “theory” of the colors (probably most people wont care, they just want their color codes!) LOL
Glad you stopped by,
Gwen
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Hi Gwen
I love seeing blogs with loads of bright colours on them, my favourite colour is blue and it follows that my blog is blue too…also because blue is a ‘trusted colour’…apparently.
I like the colours you have got going on.
welcome to the challenge
cheers
Steve
Gwen thank you for this blog is great now I know colors are part of what attracts the audience.
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Did you know that the Basic HTML Color set is a combination of 216 color? You can find a tabulated view of the basic HTML color on the internet. It can be handy when you need to quickly choose a standard HTML color for your site or any other project.
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Wow! Very resourceful post. Another tool I have found particularly useful is http://www.colorcombos.com/ This is a gr8 tool when you want to change background colors, menu bar colors, hover colors on your blog and you want all the colors to be complementary.
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I love green color, but sometimes it needs to be toned down a bit. Therefore those HEX codes and RGB codes are very useful to me because I can play with the shades and still keep it all green. I can see that you are keeping it vibrant but not too flashy with the colors as well. Good job.
Making ones site standout in the sea of others is extremely important. A good graphic solution will always bring more people to your site, than a poorly chosen color theme that tires viewers out. Keeping color palette interesting without overprinting it with too many colors is a sure road to success. This is really a useful article and I love it, hope we see some more in the future.
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