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colours
In
Session
4.9,
you
learnt
about
the
17
standard
colours
which
have
names.
There
are
many
other
colours
of
course,
but
it
is
very
difficult
to
describe
colours
to
another
person
in
a
way
which
enables
them
to
know
exactly
what
colour
you
are
talking
about.
Blue,
for
example,
has
many
different
shades,
from
light
blue
to
dark
blue.
To
overcome
this
problem,
web
designers
use
a
standard
code
to
refer
to
colours.
Because
computers
make
all
their
colours
from
a
combination
of
red,
green
and
blue,
it
is
easier
to
describe
them
as
having
a
certain
amount
of
Red,
an
amount
of
Green
and
an
amount
of
Blue.
This
is
known
as
RGB
colour
mode.
Other
industries
use
different
colour
modes.
In
printing,
CMYK
is
used,
as
all
the
printed
colours
are
made
up
of
combinations
of
Cyan,
Magenta,
Yellow
and
blacK.
The
amount
of
each
colour,
RGB,
is
divided
into
16
steps.
Each
colour
on
the
screen
can
be
described
as
a
series
of
three
numbers,
from
0
to
15,
indicating
how
much
red,
green
or
blue
is
in
it.
The
code
uses
hexadecimal
numbers,
which
is
why
it
looks
a
bit
odd
to
start
with.
Hexadecimal
counts
from
0
to
15
using:
0,
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7,
8,
9,
a,
b,
c,
d,
e,
f.
For example:
#000000 means 00 amounts of red, 00 amounts of green and 00 amounts of blue, which is black!
The
easiest
way
to
choose
colours
is
with
a
colour
chart.
Search
the
internet
for
‘hexadecimal
colours’
to
find
sample
colours
with
their
hexadecimal
codes.
Or
experiment
with
the
colour
picker
in
the
style
options
menu.
In
Amaya,
if
you
select
a
colour,
the
hexadecimal
value
is
returned
automatically.
Of
course,
even
if
as
a
designer
you
carefully
select
colours
for
your
webpage,
it
may
not
be
the
colour
the
user
sees.
Every
monitor
displays
colours
in
a
slightly
different
way.
Some
monitors
can
be
calibrated
to
show
consistent,
accurate
colours
but
these
are
very
expensive.