GIF: Random Hexadecimal Color Picker

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This chooses the six digits in the HTML hexadecimal system  individually in order to choose a color

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This chooses the six digits in the HTML hexadecimal system individually in order to choose a color. 16,777,216 different results possible!

If you don't know what a hexadecimal code is, computer codes, such as for HTML and CSS, process colors and all its shades into a six digit number. Each digit ranges as follows: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, and F, which is sixteen "numbers" per digit. This code calculates the three prime digital colors, red, blue and green, and also calculates the value, hue and saturation. The color your font is defaulted to is black, which is the code #000000, and the white background is #FFFFFF-opposite beginning and end of the hexadecimal code if you were to list all 16,777,216 combinations.

The three digital prime colors in the code are red #FF0000, green #00FF00, and blue #0000FF.

Red + Green = #FFFF00, which is Yellow.
Green + Blue = #00FFFF, which is Cyan, but is often also called Aqua
Blue + Red = #FF00FF, which is Pink. Or fuschia, but it depends on what website you're looking up colors by code.

From this you can speculate what sort of colors you might get in your head, but because it's pretty complicated, you're better off just looking up the color by the website. Now, how do you use this in HTML or CSS? If you've decorated your About Me or profile page (on QuoteV) with dividers, boxes or tables, then you've probably seen it already. On QuoteV, it looks something like #eee. Three digits, which is a little confusing, but don't worry, QuoteV does accept the six digit codes. And of course you can change the color of your text in your stories, journal entries, or whatever to the color the generator provides; however only a few of the 16,777,216 results are "web safe" colors. Safe colors are colors that won't be hard to read, or easily strain your eyes on a computer screen, and these colors are often of the neon variety, like that yellow and cyan up there (especially on a white background). On Wattpad, you can use HTML to change background and font colors in the clubs.

So let's play around with some color! And remember, not every shade of color has a name, so most of this will probably just be a "Some shade of . . . ."


0B2CE5 - Some shade of blue.

285A4B - Some shade of dark-green cyan (because cyan is both a green and a blue; although it does look blue).

F82301 - Some shade of red.

59B274 - Some shade of green.

92EF08 - Some shade of green.

FD8305 - Some shade of brown (although it looks orange. I guess orange can be a shade of brown. Bah).

4176BA - Some shade of cyan-blue.

50BA74 - Some shade of green-cyan.

65B408 - Some shade of a medium dark green.

5E1DAC - Some shade of dark blue-magenta (or purple. Whatever).

Have fun, and let me know if you've enjoyed using my generator.

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