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Don Clark
432 PointsHexidecimal Colors
Is there an easier way to remember hexidecimal colors? I remember that when using BBEdit, you could pick a color, and it would give you the hexidecimal code.
2 Answers
Guy Noda-Bailey
18,837 PointsW3schools has an interactive color picker; http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_colorpicker.asp
Years ago, anytime I was working on a site, I'd always have the 'webmonkey cheat sheets' open in a seperate tab. I just checked them out again and they are still going strong. Their colour cheat sheet is at; http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/02/color_charts/
Also many text editors put a pop up or a small colored square next to any hexidecimal color value that you type (sublime text does it via a plugin).
Andrew Chalkley's Jquery basics course has a super fun module called Creating a simple drawing application where you can learn about how the hex colors work incidentally to the main learning objective.
http://teamtreehouse.com/library/jquery-basics/creating-a-simple-drawing-application/preparation
The drawing app has a function for the user to create a new color and add it to the palette. This could be a really fun little project to take that functionality and roll your own color picker.
Don Clark
432 Pointsthanks so much, Guy. I remember when I had my first electronic design course in college, the instructor told us to simplify, simplify, simplify. Instead of having to keep hexadecimal numbers in my head, I can bookmark these pages you've sent, and that'll leave more space in my cranium for other information.
Guy Noda-Bailey
18,837 PointsGuy Noda-Bailey
18,837 PointsSorry, I just checked out the simple drawing application. It uses rgb values instead. The rgb values use the same concept as hexidecimal color values but are slightly more human readable.
This would make my 'rolling your own color picker' project a little more complicated but still fun. I might try it out for my homework tonight.
Guy Noda-Bailey
18,837 PointsGuy Noda-Bailey
18,837 PointsDid it! Not very pretty, and still have some things I'd like to add, but it was a fun excercise working out how to convert colors into numbers and then numbers into hexidecimal strings.
http://teamtreehouse.com/workspaces/621132