# Bold **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bold/299562 **Category:** About This Message Board **Created:** [April 15, 2005, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bold/299562 "2005-04-15T22:35:32Z") **Posts on this page:** 9 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![justwannano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ab992/32.png) [@justwannano](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/justwannano) #### Post date: [April 15, 2005, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bold/299562/1 "2005-04-15T22:35:32Z")
**bold** ---
### Author: ![Electronic\_Chaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos) #### Post date: [April 17, 2005, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bold/299562/2 "2005-04-17T16:50:04Z")
_spicy_ ---
### Author: ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos) #### Post date: [April 17, 2005, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bold/299562/3 "2005-04-17T18:55:11Z")
No, no, it’s got to be on fire! ),(~)S)(~ _ **SPICY!** _ ---
### Author: ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang) #### Post date: [April 17, 2005, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bold/299562/4 "2005-04-17T19:17:42Z")
I dare someone to put the word ‘coffee’ in colour code. ---
### Author: ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler) #### Post date: [April 17, 2005, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bold/299562/5 "2005-04-17T19:53:18Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > I dare someone to put the word ‘coffee’ in colour code. IJUSTATEAWHOLEBAGOFCHOCOLATECOVERDEXPRESSOBEANS. ---
### Author: ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler) #### Post date: [April 17, 2005, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bold/299562/6 "2005-04-17T19:58:13Z")
vBulletin won’t recognize coffee, expresso, or porter as colors. ---
### Author: ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang) #### Post date: [April 17, 2005, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bold/299562/7 "2005-04-17T20:10:54Z")
Seems to. ---
### Author: ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout) #### Post date: [April 18, 2005, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bold/299562/8 "2005-04-18T10:26:56Z")
OK; if you put something other than a standard colour name in an HTML tag (which is what the vB tags have been rendered as, by the time you see them, your browser will (typically) attempt to parse it as a hex RGB value - treating all of the characters that aren’t 0-9/A-F as zeroes, so: coffee is the same as c0ffee mud is the same colour as 00d mangetout is the same colour as 00a00e000 peaches is the same colour as 0eac0e0 ---
### Author: ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos) #### Post date: [April 18, 2005, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bold/299562/9 "2005-04-18T19:48:01Z")
That’s browser-dependant. Older versions of Netscape and apparently Internet Explorer attempt to render unrecognized names as hex, but Mozilla and presumably newer versions of Netscape and Firefox will just leave anything other than a recognized color name or a valid six-character hex value as black. So for Mozilla, both peaches and 0eac0e0 are plain black, but 0eac0e is a green color.