Color is a class in the AWT. Individual colors like red or mauve
are instances of this class, java.awt.Color
. Be sure
to import it if you want to use other than the default colors. You
create new colors using the same RGB triples that you use to set
background colors on web pages. However you use decimal numbers
instead of the hex values used by HTML's bgcolor
attribute. For
example medium gray is Color(127, 127, 127)
. Pure
white is Color(255, 255, 255)
. Pure red is (255,
0, 0)
and so on. As with any variable you should give your
colors descriptive names. For instance
Color medGray = new Color(127, 127, 127);
Color cream = new Color(255, 231, 187);
Color lightGreen = new Color(0, 55, 0);
A few of the most common colors are available by name. These are
Color.black
Color.blue
Color.cyan
Color.darkGray
Color.gray
Color.green
Color.lightGray
Color.magenta
Color.orange
Color.pink
Color.red
Color.white
Color.yellow