HTML Pocket Reference

Color Names

Colors can be identified by one of 140 color names originally developed for the X Window System. The complete list appears below.

Color names are only supported by Navigator versions 2.0 and higher and Internet Explorer versions 3.0 and higher. Internet Explorer 2.0 supports the following 16 color names:

aqua	gray	navy	silver
black	green	olive	teal
blue	lime	purple	white
fuschia	maroon	red	yellow

Of the 140 color names, only 10 represent nondithering colors from the Web Palette. They are: aqua, black, blue, cyan, fuschia, lime, magenta, red, white, and yellow.

When viewed on an 8-bit display, the remaining 130 colors will shift to their nearest Web Palette equivalent (or System Palette color). In many cases, the difference is drastic. Many of the pastels shift to solid white.

The “Nearest Web-safe Color” column lists the color that will actually be displayed for each color name on an 8-bit display.

Color Name	RGB Values	Hexa-decimal	Nearest Web-safe Color
aliceblue	240 - 248 - 255	F0F8FF	FFFFFF
antiquewhite	250 - 235 - 215	FAEBD7	FFFFCC
aqua	0 - 255 - 255	00FFFF	00FFFF
aquamarine	127 - 255 - 212	7FFFD4	66FFCC
azure	240 - 255 - 255	F0FFFF	FFFFFF
beige	245 - 245 - 220	F5F5DC	FFFFCC
bisque	255 - 228 - 196	FFE4C4	FFFFCC
black	0 - 0 - 0	000000	000000
blanchedalmond	255 - 255 - 205	FFEBCD	FFFFCC
blue	0 - 0 - 255	0000FF	0000FF
blueviolet	138 - 43 - 226	8A2BE2	9933FF
brown	165 - 42 - 42	A52A2A	993333
burlywood