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Text and background colors

We suggest using a text color that is the same as the one shown here to work with specific background colors.  The colors shown for text are either black (#000000), white(#FFFFFF), or a light gray(#CFCFCF).  You can see from these examples that these three color choices for text work with just about anything.  There certainly is not a problem with using an alternate color as long as it works well with the background.   For example, substituting dark blue for black would work well in most cases

Webpage backgrounds can be a background image or a color.   The image can be a repeating pattern or a graphic for the entire page.  The background as a solid color can be almost any color.   The text used can have the same range of colors.  Here is a list of background colors and the hexadecimal code that can be used to specify the color.  Not all colors are shown.  There is a very good reason for this.  The total number of colors is in excess of 16 million.  You wouldn't expect us to display every color would you?

There are 128 colors that can be specified by using the name of the color instead of a hexadecimal code.  This can help you from having to remember the hexadecimal code.  Both backgrounds and text can use this naming scheme to specify the colors.

Named Colors (and their hexadecimal codes)

Hexadecimal Color Codes