Here it is, the big scary question: what color is this?

[kestrell]

You would think that, web developers having assigned numeric values to colors, that these systems would be precise, or even reliable...okay, perhaps somewhat predictable?

Not so!

I'm not asking for weird girl colors: all I wanted was forest green text on a cream background.

I fially got a result of forest green for at least the h1 heading.

Cream has been a lot more adventurous. Using the hex, rgb, or even the color name "cream," I have gotten lemon chiffon, gray, and default white. I even tried settling for cornsilk, but that gave me bisque. And bisque can be another weeny color word that varies from off-white to beige, which are even more variable as colors categories.

So, can I borrow some eyeballs out there? (I promise to let you keep the tooth.)
What colors are on this webpage: https://kestrell7.github.io

Comments

[ceraphiic]

The header is green, text is black, links are blue, and background is white. Looking at the source code though, if you're using RGB, you have to format it rgb(255, 248, 220).

[kestrell]

Thanks! To tell the truth, I've lost count of which system I was using, because I've been trying both hex and rgb, and I'm getting more confused all the time, like, are there supposed to be spaces between the commas, or no spaces?

[ceraphiic]

You can write RGB colors in any of these formats as they're all valid:

rgb(red green blue)
rgb(red, green, blue)
rgb(red,green,blue)

If you want to adjust the transparency, add an alpha channel:

rgba(red green blue / alpha)
rgba(red, green, blue, alpha)
rgba(red,green,blue,alpha)

Just replace alpha with either a number between 0 and 1, or a percentage:
rgba(255 0 0 / .1) and rgba(255, 0, 0, 10%) are both    .
rgba(255 0 0 / .5) and rgba(255, 0, 0, 50%) are both    .
rgba(255 0 0 / 1) and rgba(255, 0, 0, 100%) are both    .

I know that's a lot more than you asked for, but there really are many different ways to write RGB colors. Just use whichever you feel most comfortable with, is my advice.

[kestrell]

Thanks! I'll try giving this another shot...who am I kidding? I will obsess over this until I get it right...

[kestrell]

WOO-HOO! It worked!! Thank you!

[ceraphiic]

Glad I could help! :D

[jesse_the_k]

SUCCESS!

[bibliofile]

Seems like a solid cream to me!

I like the green! On my monitor (Acer laptop), the green reads more as a leaf or moss green? I think of forest green as a bit darker and bluer, but that could just be misremebering from Crayola.

Text is black, links are standard bright blue.

[siderea]

I'm on a recent Macbook Pro and it's a more leaf green here too. Also, the background is more tan than cream; it has a lot of yellow in it. For cream, I would recommend the color of your journal's comment backgrounds, or maybe even something lighter.

Come to think of it, your header background green here might be what you're looking for for forest green.

[kestrell]

Thanks! My next project was going to be to try to figure out how to apply the same colors to my Dreamwidth, so that's two birds with one--ouch!

[kestrell]

Thanks! Even Jaws identified it as forest green, so I guess even the monitor variations can be significant. Forest green is supposed to be that darker shade: it's my favorite color.

[duskpeterson]

The green is looking lighter than forest green because of an optical illusion: the green is against a cream background, so the eye blends the forest green with the cream to create a lighter green. I double-checked this by setting the same color type against a white background in my HTML editor. It shows up as darker green against a white background.

As for the background, that does look solidly cream to me. It's a very pleasant background to read against.

[kestrell]

Oh, good! I try to pick cream as a background for things like my business cards, because I remember how tiring stark white can be. If this works for you, I may just leave the colors as is for now, since I'm finding it really complicated to navigate the elements tree in the Chrome web dev tools.
I've tried to fidn an add-on that will just simply tell me the colors on a webpage, but no luck so far.

[duskpeterson]

My father the book designer actually has cream as his default background color in his word processors. I know this, because I inherit his old computers.

[kestrell]

Yes, I also like cream because it lends an "old book" aesthetic.