How colour works
Colours are made in much the same way as you would mix a colour using paint. You take the primary colours of Red, Green and Blue and mix various amounts of those colours together to create a new colour. Only instead of using your paint brush to select the amount of paint you use a hexadecimal number instead.

For those who are not familiar with Hexadecimal it uses all of our standard numbers ie 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 & 9, but also includes A,B,C,D,E & F to allow for more numbers to be created. Effectively the numbering system goes.

Decimal Value	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
Hexadecimal Value	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	A	B	C	D	E	F

Mixing a colour
In HTML we represent a colour using a six digit hexadecimal number. Please note you must always use the American spelling of colour, "color".

For example. color="#22AA33"

This 6 digit number can be further broken into the primary colours.

• The first two digits relate to how much RED is to be used in the colour.
• The middle two digits relate to how much GREEN is to be used in the colour.
• The Last two digits relate to how much BLUE is to be used in the colour.

The final colour depends on the amount of each of the primary colours you use. FF will use a lot of the colour, 00 uses none. This is probably best shown by looking at the colours black and white.

White = #ffffff
This means use all the red, green and blue possible. This will make a very very light colour, which appears white.

Black = #000000
This means use NO red, NO green and NO blue. This will make a very very dark colour, which appears black.

A table of colours and their Hexadecimal numbers.

Colour	Value	Colour	Value
	#000000		#FFFFFF
	#FF0000		#800000
	#00FF00		#008000
	#0000FF		#000080
	#FFFF00		#808000
	#FF00FF		#800080
	#00FFFF		#008080
	#FF8080		#80FF80
	#8080FF		#808080

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