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Web Safe Colors Hexadecimal Base Reference Chart

Some years ago, when computers supported max 256 different colors, a list of 216 "Web Safe Colors" was suggested as a Web standard, reserving 40 fixed system colors. This is not really important now, since most computers can display millions of different colors, but the choice is left to you and I generally recommend if possible sticking to web safe colors as these help keep everything cross browser similar.

#000000
#000033
#000066
#000099
#0000CC
#0000FF
#660000
#660033
#660066
#660099
#6600CC
#6600FF
#CC0000
#CC0033
#CC0066
#CC0099
#CC00CC
#CC00FF
#FF6600
#FF6633
#FF6666
#FF6699
#FF66CC
#FF66FF
#CCFF00
#CCFF33
#CCFF66
#CCFF99
#CCFFCC
#CCFFFF
#66FF00
#66FF33
#66FF66
#66FF99
#66FFCC
#66FFFF
#00FF00
#00FF33
#00FF66
#00FF99
#00FFCC
#00FFFF
#00CC00
#00CC33
#00CC66
#00CC99
#00CCCC
#00CCFF

The 216 cross-browser color palette was created to ensure that all computers would display the colors correctly when running a 256 color palette and is as follows. Above are the base color reference chat, for an explanation of hexadecimal colors please see this article Hexadecimal Colors Explained.

Besides the 216 Hexadecimal colors there are also W3C (The World Wide Web Consortium) listed 16 valid color names for HTML and CSS, which can be used as words and are as below.

aqua
black
blue
fuchsia
gray
green
lime
maroon
navy
olive
purple
red
silver
teal
white
yellow

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