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

[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.