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Acies
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Member Rara Avis
since 2000-06-07
Posts 7665Twilight Zone |
What exactly are the 2 different shades in our background color? I've tried: "33ccff" "66ccff" "99ccff" "ccccff" "ccffff" ....and they come close but they don't match any of em. hi Sweets, Lizzy, Kris, Ina, Allysa, Erica, Minna, Kit, Kamie, Javi, Jenn, Sharon, Nan, Cawlee, Cherish, Ashley, Sara, Justine, Leah, Jess, Kimmie, Ma |
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Ron
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-05-19
Posts 8669Michigan, US |
It's been so long, you know I honestly don't remember. But if you do a "View Source" and look for a bgcolor, I'll bet the answer could be found...  |
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Acies
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Member Rara Avis
since 2000-06-07
Posts 7665Twilight Zone |
I can't seem to make it work Ron  hi Sweets, Lizzy, Kris, Ina, Allysa, Erica, Minna, Kit, Kamie, Javi, Jenn, Sharon, Nan, Cawlee, Cherish, Ashley, Sara, Justine, Leah, Jess, Kimmie, Ma |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
#ffffff #000080 |
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Ron
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-05-19
Posts 8669Michigan, US |
Well, those two I DO remember, Nan, 'cause they're so common. The numbers are not without meaning, nor is it all that tough to figure out. Each two "digits" represents a color, ranging from 00 (no color) to ff (fully saturated). The left-most digits are red, so a number like ff0000 mean we want a color with all red and no other color - bright red, in other words. The middle digits are for green, so 00ff00 would be our fully saturated green. That leaves the last two digits for blue, giving 0000ff for a pure blue. Going to the next step, it's not much different than mixing paints when we were in grade school - ff00ff means we want a lot of red and a lot of blue, giving us a pretty bright shade of purple (almost fuchsia). Most of the independent colors on the WWW, what you and I see every day, is determined by 256 possible shades of red, 256 possible shades of green, and 256 possible shades of blue - all mixed together for over sixteen million possible combinations. So, the two colors Nan dug out of the source code are pretty easy to recognize. If you completely saturate something with all hues (#ffffff is as high as you can get), you end up with pure white. The other one, #000080, is half way up the blue spectrum, so that's our darker, navy blue. I think the two shades of blue you want, acire, are #ddf0ff and #c1dffd. (For the purists - when I said mixing colors was little different than mixing paints like we did in school, I was simplifying almost to the point of being wrong. There are some pretty big differences. If you take buckets of blue, red, and yellow and mix them equally you should come up with something pretty close to black. Yet, when we mix our three primary colors, we come up with pure white? The differences arise from the medium. Most of what we see in the world, like paint, is actually a reflected surface. Light hits the paint, some is absorbed, and the rest is reflected to our eyes. We "see" the colors that weren't absorbed. This is called the "additive" color theory and it's what we learned in school. There are, however, a few real-world objects like computer monitors, televisions, and photo developers that contain their OWN light source. Instead of seeing reflected light, what wasn't absorbed, we see what is emitted. For those few objects, we have to use the "subtractive" color theory.) |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
Hmmm... Some smart friend of mine once said that, "No matter how much you know about computers, there's always more to learn"... How come I didn't see all that stuff when I did the 'view source'?...  |
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Acies
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Member Rara Avis
since 2000-06-07
Posts 7665Twilight Zone |
me too hi Sweets, Lizzy, Kris, Ina, Allysa, Erica, Minna, Kit, Kamie, Javi, Jenn, Sharon, Nan, Cawlee, Cherish, Ashley, Sara, Justine, Leah, Jess, Kimmie, Ma |
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Charisma
since 2000-09-30
Posts 5906lost in blue pages |
try this one....I take a snapshot and found this numbers shows up at my colorscreen. lightblue= #D0EFFF blue= #BFDFFF Charisma Oops didn't read Ron's answer, and think he shows the answers already. [This message has been edited by Charisma (edited 09-16-2001).] |
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