About BGCOLOR Color Chart

BGCOLOR Color Chart is one of the convenient ways to find the best color from among over 16 millions.

BGCOLOR Color Chart is a set of 8 files:

bgcolors.htm -- Main file showing the FULL-RANGE CHART of RGB colors
bgcolor1.htm -- DETAILED COLOR CHART
bgcolor2.htm -- MORE DETAILED COLOR CHART
bgcolor3.htm -- COLOR VIEWER (by RGB number)
bgcolor4.htm -- COLOR VIEWER (by color name)
bgcolor0.htm -- TABLE OF THE SIXTEEN W3C COLORS
colnames.htm -- TABLE OF NETSCAPE COLOR NAMES
bgcolora.htm -- This "ABOUT" file

All these files were created by Osamu Nyan Kondo, except that colnames.htm is based on the original creation by Dan Keller.

All files are written using JavaScript. Without activating JavaScript, you can only see two color tables: THE SIXTEEN W3C COLORS and NETSCAPE COLOR NAMES.

HOW TO USE

In the most usual way, you start with FULL-RANGE CHART. This chart shows the full range of RGB colors from #000000 to #ffffff. Look at this chart as five slices of a 5x5x5 cube. You can choose three different arrangements of colors on this chart. Then, from here, you can move to DETAILED CHART by clicking on a color, you can invoke COLOR VIEWER by using the radio button and then clicking on a color, or you can see color name tables by following links.

DETAILED CHART is similar to FULL-RANGE CHART. The color space represented as a cell in the previous chart is now shown as a 5x5x5 cube. In addition to going to MORE DETAILED CHART, you can move around in the color space on this chart. The radio buttons now allow you three choices: more detail, move, and invoke color viewer.

MORE DETAILED CHART is 2-dimensional. You see a 16x16 field of colors, which displays only one plane in the 16x16x16 cube represented by a cell in the previous chart. You can raise or lower this plane by clicking on a number shown beneath the chart. Clicking on a color invokes COLOR VIEWER.

There are two COLOR VIEWERS, one showing the color corresponding to an RGB number and one showing the color assigned by a "name." You can enter a value and click the button to see the color for the value. In the RGB viewer, you can add or subtract the values for R, G, and B, and see how the color changes.

Viewing all 16,777,216 different colors, of course, requires a true-color monitor. However, examining how colors are shown on high-color and 256-color monitors may be an interesting (and often important) step in determining the colors to use.

While I retain the rights as the author of this work, you can freely download, use, reproduce, and modify these files for non-commercial purposes. I don't assume any warranty as to the result of the use of this material.

HOW TO USE

Copyright (C) by Osamu Nyan Kondo, 1998

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