# Just color testing **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 20, 2019, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-color-testing/845156 "2019-12-20T20:22:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2019, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-color-testing/845156/1 "2019-12-20T20:22:27Z")
Basic Red Dark red Blue Barely blue Party ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2019, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-color-testing/845156/2 "2019-12-21T03:21:10Z")
Dark red is really bad, but that could be my monitor. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2019, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-color-testing/845156/3 "2019-12-21T09:06:31Z")
Basic, Red, and Blue are all fine on my monitor. Dark Red looks more brown than red on both my work monitor and my home monitor. Barely Blue is barely visible. The P and t in Party are ok, but everything else is barely visible. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2019, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-color-testing/845156/4 "2019-12-21T10:20:07Z")
On my cracked iPad dark red looks brown. The other colours are what it says. The orange is kinda faint, green is hard to see, the yellow is unreadable. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2019, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-color-testing/845156/5 "2019-12-21T18:11:15Z")
Yeah, I can’t see the yellow at all, and the barely blue is barely there. The dark red looks more like a brick red. Was just testing to see if the hex codes worked on this board. ---
**Author:** ![TheCuse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thecuse/32/2854_2.png) [@TheCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheCuse)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2019, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-color-testing/845156/6 "2019-12-21T18:12:22Z")
Red looks red on my iMac. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2019, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-color-testing/845156/7 "2019-12-22T01:50:24Z")
Barely blue Party both horrible on mine. I wasn’t even sure it said party until I highlighted it – the p barely and the t is a little fuzzy. And since this isn’t a poll I will forgive you for not including pie ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2019, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-color-testing/845156/8 "2019-12-22T03:45:24Z")
They all look perfect on my cell phone. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2019, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-color-testing/845156/9 "2019-12-22T04:34:32Z")
Proto-indo-european ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2019, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-color-testing/845156/10 "2019-12-22T11:22:53Z")
[color=Trump orange]TEST[\color] Well, damn. ---
**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:** [December 22, 2019, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-color-testing/845156/11 "2019-12-22T19:04:52Z")
Color codes can’t have spaces. Leave out the space (or use an underscore) and you get a shade of blue. Now **this** is about right. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2019, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-color-testing/845156/12 "2019-12-22T19:22:25Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Color codes can’t have spaces. Leave out the space (or use an underscore) and you get a shade of blue. Nice! I wouldn’t have thought to check that. Hillary\_Clinton Mitch\_McConnell Chief\_Justice\_John\_Roberts Stephen\_King V\_C\_Andrews HillaryClinton MitchMcConnell ChiefJusticeJohnRoberts StephenKing VCAndrews ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2019, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-color-testing/845156/13 "2019-12-22T19:33:37Z")
> [@GreysonCarlisle](#): > > Nice! I wouldn’t have thought to check that. > > Hillary\_Clinton > > Mitch\_McConnell > > Chief\_Justice\_John\_Roberts > > Stephen\_King > > V\_C\_Andrews > > HillaryClinton > > MitchMcConnell > > ChiefJusticeJohnRoberts > > StephenKing > > VCAndrews None of these show up in color on Tapatalk on my phone, but they are in colod in the cell phone web browser. The OP was in color on both Tapatalk and cell browser. ---
**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:** [December 22, 2019, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-color-testing/845156/14 "2019-12-22T19:45:11Z")
There’s a standard list of color names that should be recognized by everything. Use one of those, and you know what you’ll get. Alternately, you can get any color monitors are capable of displaying, by using its hex code. Those aren’t as easy to remember, but they’re also consistent and universal. Use anything else, though, and it’s up to the browser what to do with it. Some have extended lists of named colors, some just leave unrecognized colors as black, and some try to interpret them as hex codes, with any non-hex-digit interpreted as a 0. ---
**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:** [December 22, 2019, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-color-testing/845156/15 "2019-12-22T19:53:34Z")
I forgot about hex codes. **Trump orange** ([Gamboge - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamboge)) ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2019, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-color-testing/845156/16 "2019-12-22T19:59:19Z")
You can get extensions for your browser that will give you the hex code of any pixel you’re hovering over. Find a picture of the person, then find a representative pixel for the color you’re going for, and use that hex code.