## Colour Names for Arachne

For your webpages to display a certain color background, text or links, you may use either predefined colour names or hexadecimal values in your HTML code. A restricted list of color names is presented below, along with their red-green-blue (RGB) and hexadecimal values. These have been found to display accurately with Arachne1.5 (the graphical browser for DOS) on a 256-colour screen. A question-mark [?] indicates colors that are slightly askew, but that you may decide are usable. Additionally, named colours that are not displayed accurately by MS Explorer3, Netscape Navigator3 or Opera3.6 are indicated by E, N and/or O. Spare a thought for Windoze users! Arachne's support for color names is poor, with some output completely opposite to the desired result. Nevertheless, its rendering of hexadecimal-specified colours is better than Windows browsers, which cannot display many of the pale colours on a 256-color screen. This is not to suggest you should use the "difficult" colours. After all, if the content of your webpage has any value you want the maximum audience to be able to see it! In order that this page should have some chance of appearing in search-engine results, International and US spellings for "colour" have been alternated in the text.

Colour Names | RGB Values | Hexadecimal Values
aqua | 0, 255, 255 | #00FFFF
black | 0, 0, 0 | #000000
blue | 0, 0, 255 | #0000FF
brown [?] | 128, 42, 42 | #A52A2A
chocolate [?] | 210, 105, 30 | #D2691E
dimgray [O] | 105, 105, 105 | #696969
fuchsia | 255, 0, 255 | #FF00FF
gray | 128, 128, 128 | #808080
green | 0, 128, 0 | #008000
lime | 0, 255, 0 | #00FF00
maroon | 128, 0, 0 | #800000
mediumblue | 0, 0, 205 | #0000CD
navy | 0, 0, 128 | #000080
navyblue [E,N,O] | 0, 0, 128 | #000080
olive | 128, 128, 0 | #808000
purple | 128, 0, 128 | #800080
red | 255, 0, 0 | #FF0000
silver | 192, 192, 192 | #C0C0C0
slategray [?] | 112, 128, 144 | #708090
teal | 0, 128, 128 | #008080
white | 255, 255, 255 | #FFFFFF
yellow | 255, 255, 0 | #FFFF00

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