11-16-2004, 03:02 AM
Bolty,Nov 15 2004, 10:38 AM Wrote:Infinite? Let me try some math here. Web colors are a hexidecimal collection of Red, Green, and Blue. Two characters represent each of these three primary colors. #000000 is black, and #FFFFFF is white. Counting those, we have...
256 Red colors * 256 Green colors * 256 Blue colors = 16,777,216 different color combinations.
Naming those would be pretty tough, yeah. Now do you see why I have such a hard time with coloring and skinning websites? I have over 16 million color choices to pick from with EACH color!
Argh!
-Bolty
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But then you have to remember which color combinations not to use in case of colorblind people, so you really (contrary to intuition) add those in twice, then multiply by 2 to account for white on black and black on white as two separate combinations (I suppose that would make it a permutation, then), when you factor in monitor contrast, you have to be even more careful, so increase that by a factor of pi x (1/[e-n] +14), where n is... ;)
All seriousness aside, I don't mean every shade, I mean like the "basic" shades, like fucia, mahogany, and chartreuse. And I want them in English, not hex.