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CSS How to Make a Website Customizing Colors and Fonts Review: Customizing Colors and Fonts

Martina Vonkomerova
Martina Vonkomerova
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Posted by Martina Vonkomerova
Martina Vonkomerova
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Hexadecimal code to colors in CSS

Can somebody explain how to write hexadecimal color code in CSS?

3 Answers

Ryan Field
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Ryan Field
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Ryan Field
Ryan Field
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Hexadecimal colours are made up of three groups of two numbers, all six of which range from 0-F (that is, 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F for essentially 16 digits). The first two numbers make up the red value, the middle two make up the green value, and the last two make up the blue value. As such, a value of #FF0000 would be pure red and #00FF00 would be pure green.

That said, you don't have to memorize how to make hexadecimal values for colours. There are plenty of online tools (and even tools like Photoshop) where you can pick a colour and it will provide you with the hexadecimal value, so don't worry! :)

hardieboeve
hardieboeve
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hardieboeve
hardieboeve
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It is very easy to use hexadecimal color code's in css, for example:

    p {
      color: #000;
      background-color: #f1f1f1;
    }