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This page uses just a little bit of JavaScript to help you see what various background colors look like. A full palette isn't represented here, so if you want more colors, check out VisiBone Webmaster's Color Lab — a great site that shows you what your whole color palette (including backgrounds, text, links, etc.) will look like.

By the way, if you have the resources, try loading this same page on two nearby monitors. Most monitors aren't calibrated correctly anyway, and older ones can be especially out of whack. The same color — even in the same version of browser — can look unrecognizably different just because of the wonky monitor calibrations. And this is to say nothing about the differences between older CRT monitors and the newer LCD's.

And yet, people don't seem to understand Jean Baudrillard. Go figger.

 

Choose a color:

Obscure Weak Blue-- 000033
Obscure Dull Azure -- 003366
Dark Azure Blue -- 003399
Dark Hard Azure -- 0066cc



Dark Violet Blue -- 330099
Dark Violet Magenta -- 660099
Hard Dark Violet -- 6600cc


Obscure Dull Teal -- 006633
Obscure Dull Spring -- 336600
Dark Spring Green -- 339900
Dark Hard Spring -- 66cc00
Obscure Dull Yellow -- 666600
Dark Weak Green -- 336633
Obscure Weak Cyan -- 003333
Obscure Weak Green -- 003300


Red -- 800000
Obscure Weak Red -- 330000
Obscure Dull Red -- 660000
Dark Faded Red -- 990000
Dark Hard Red -- cc0000


10% Gray -- E6E6E6
20% Gray -- CDCDCD
30% Gray -- B4B4B4
40% Gray -- 9A9A9A
50% Gray -- 818181
60% Gray -- 666666
70% Gray -- 4B4B4B
80% Gray -- 303030
90% Gray -- 131313