What is a Color Code Table and Color Picker?
Color code tables and color pickers are essential tools in web design and development. Color codes are numerical systems used to represent colors, with common formats including HEX (hexadecimal), RGB (red, green, blue), and HSL (hue, saturation, lightness). Through color code tables, designers and developers can quickly find the color codes they need and use them directly in CSS, HTML, or other code. Color pickers provide a visual color selection interface, allowing users to intuitively select colors and instantly view the corresponding color code values.
Common Color Formats
- HEX Format: Starts with #, followed by 6 hexadecimal digits, for example #FF0000 represents red. This is the most commonly used format in web development, concise and easy to use.
- RGB Format: Uses three values from 0-255 to represent the intensity of red, green, and blue primary colors, for example rgb(255, 0, 0) represents red. RGB format is suitable for scenarios that require dynamic color intensity adjustment.
- HSL Format: Uses three parameters - Hue, Saturation, and Lightness - to describe colors, for example hsl(0, 100%, 50%) represents red. HSL format is more aligned with human intuitive understanding of colors.
Use Cases
- Web Design: Select website theme colors, button colors, text colors, etc., to ensure visual style consistency.
- CSS Development: Use color codes directly in stylesheets to quickly apply colors to various elements.
- Brand Design: Find colors that match the brand image and establish a unified visual identity system.
- UI/UX Design: Select colors suitable for user interfaces to improve user experience and readability.
Usage Tips
- Click on the color code to quickly copy it for direct use in code.
- Use the color picker to intuitively select colors and instantly view RGB, HSL, and HEX values.
- Recently used colors are automatically saved for quick reuse of commonly used colors.