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Posted by Amanda Bridge
Amanda Bridge
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Do hexadecimal colors average between the two numbers/letters?

I get how #888888 is gray because 8 is in the middle, and how #fffff is white because it's at the end, but how can two characters make up a high or low value if they're at different places on the scale?

In, for example, #4a2b1c, he said "4a" is a high amount of red or something like that. Is that because "a" is higher and it averages between 4 and a on the scale?

1 Answer

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher
Jennifer Nordell
.a{fill-rule:evenodd;}techdegree
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse Teacher

No. It's because the 4a is the first number in the RGB equivalent. 4a expressed as decimal would be 74. The entire rgb value of #4a2b1c would be RGB(74, 43, 28). So 2b is 43, and 1c is 28. Here's a wikihow I found on how to count in hexadecimal http://www.wikihow.com/Understand-Hexadecimal