# color test **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 14, 2009, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-test/503060 "2009-07-14T23:55:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-test/503060/1 "2009-07-14T23:55:55Z")
pink red orange yellow brown light green green light blue blue dark blue violet dark violet purple ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2009, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-test/503060/2 "2009-07-15T00:35:54Z")
white ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2009, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-test/503060/3 "2009-07-15T02:32:32Z")
black ---
**Author:** ![HongKongFooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c4cdca/32.png) [@HongKongFooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HongKongFooey)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2009, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-test/503060/4 "2009-07-15T02:39:16Z")
Plaid ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2009, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-test/503060/5 "2009-07-15T17:40:28Z")
pink red orange yellow brown light green green light blue blue dark blue violet dark violet purple Yep. Looks right. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2009, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-test/503060/6 "2009-07-15T17:54:14Z")
> [@gotpasswords](#): > > pink red orange > > yellow brown > > light green green > > light blue blue dark blue > > violet dark violet purple > > Yep. Looks right. Nice (used “Nice” as the color, and edited) ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2009, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-test/503060/7 "2009-07-15T18:14:24Z")
> [@gotpasswords](#): > > [noparse]pink red orange > > yellow brown > > light green green > > light blue blue dark blue > > violet dark violet purple[/noparse] > > Yep. Looks right. “Navy”? “Olive”? I couldn’t find a list of color values the board recognizes, so I had to experiment. Some of these look identical to other colors. Anyone? ---
**Author:** ![Santos\_L\_Halper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/santos_l_halper/32/1_2.png) [@Santos\_L\_Halper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santos_L_Halper)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2009, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-test/503060/8 "2009-07-15T19:02:41Z")
> [@](#): > > “Navy”? “Olive”? I couldn’t find a list of color values the board recognizes, so I had to experiment. Some of these look identical to other colors. Anyone? When you’re composing a message, among the many things you can choose from is the text color. If you click on the little arrow it’ll bring up a dropdown selector for the 40 color choices: Black Sienna DarkOliveGreen DarkGreen DarkSlateBlue Navy Indigo DarkSlateGray DarkRed DarkOrange Olive Green Teal Blue SlateGra DimGray Red SandyBrown YellowGreen SeaGreen MediumTurquois RoyalBlue Purple Gray Magenta Orange Yellow Lime Cyan DeepSkyBlue DarkOrchid Silver Pink Wheat LemonChiffon PaleGreen PaleTurquoise LightBlue Plum White ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2009, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-test/503060/9 "2009-07-15T19:12:29Z")
And then of course, is the minor nuttiness where you can use any arbitrary word as a color, and it will be interpreted. My name is green This color is boring and this color is delightful. My name is {COLOR=“gotpasswords”]green[/COLOR] This color is {COLOR=“boring”]boring [/COLOR]and this color is {COLOR=“delightful”]delightful[/COLOR]. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2009, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-test/503060/10 "2009-07-15T22:28:10Z")
> [@gotpasswords](#): > > And then of course, is the minor nuttiness where you can use any arbitrary word as a color, and it will be interpreted. > > My name is green > > This color is boring and this color is delightful. > My name is {COLOR=“gotpasswords”]green[/COLOR] > > This color is {COLOR=“boring”]boring [/COLOR]and this color is {COLOR=“delightful”]delightful[/COLOR]. Works in IE but not Firefox. ---
**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:** [July 16, 2009, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-test/503060/11 "2009-07-16T02:56:23Z")
Any browser will recognize hex values for colors, like 12ABC3 (which lets you exactly match any color you want, if you can get the value for it). IE and some older versions of Mozilla will, if given something they don’t recognize as a color name, try to interpret it as a hex value, with A-F meaning the hex digits, and anything else considered zero. ---
**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:** [July 16, 2009, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-test/503060/12 "2009-07-16T02:57:24Z")
…Or maybe not. That should be a light tealish color, but it isn’t showing up for me after all. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2009, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-test/503060/13 "2009-07-16T03:01:29Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Any browser will recognize hex values for colors, like 12ABC3 (which lets you exactly match any color you want, if you can get the value for it). IE and some older versions of Mozilla will, if given something they don’t recognize as a color name, try to interpret it as a hex value, with A-F meaning the hex digits, and anything else considered zero. You had an extra 3 in there. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2009, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-test/503060/14 "2009-07-16T23:34:54Z")
> [@Santos\_L\_Halper](#): > > When you’re composing a message, among the many things you can choose from is the text color. If you click on the little arrow it’ll bring up a dropdown selector for the 40 color choices: Ah, I couldn’t get the color dropdown to work in my browser (older Netscape) but I see it in IE. Thanks. > [@Chronos](#): > > Any browser will recognize hex values for colors, like 12ABC3 (which lets you exactly match any color you want, if you can get the value for it). IE and some older versions of Mozilla will, if given something they don’t recognize as a color name, try to interpret it as a hex value, with A-F meaning the hex digits, and anything else considered zero. . So for example FFFF00 should give me yellow? (Preview: it does!) ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-test/503060/15 "2009-07-17T20:08:55Z")
dark magenta sorta orange sorta cyan dark red cool! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-test/503060/16 "2009-07-17T20:14:01Z")
Old thread: [Fun with Colors](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=115230). ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2009, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/color-test/503060/17 "2009-07-22T17:22:24Z")
Test post from my new phone. It’s my first really web friendly one. [ETA: Yep. Worked great]