Basic Color Names

The HTML 4.01 specification defines sixteen basic named colors. These colors are originally used as the standard EGA color palette. The CSS 2.1 specification defines the same number of named colors but adds the 'orange' color name to the list.
Color Preview Color Name Hex Code RGB
white#FFFFFF255,255,255
gray#808080128,128,128
silver#C0C0C0192,192,192
black#0000000,0,0
maroon#800000128,0,0
red #FF0000255,0,0
purple#800080128,0,128
fuchsia#FF00FF255,0,255
green#0080000,128,0
lime#00FF000,255,0
olive#808000128,128,0
yellow#FFFF00255,255,0
navy#0000800,0,128
blue#0000FF0,0,255
teal#0080800,128,128
aqua#00FFFF0,255,255
orange#FFA500255,165,0

X11 Color Names (W3C color names)

The following table display all the colors in the X11 color set that are accepted by browsers following W3C standards.
Color Preview Color Name Hex Code RGB
Red color names
indianred#CD5C5C205,92,92
lightcoral#F08080240,128,128
salmon#FA8072250,128,114
darksalmon#E9967A233,150,122
lightsalmon#FFA07A255,160,122
crimson#DC143C220,20,60
red#FF0000255,0,0
firebrick#B22222178,34,34
darkred#8B0000139,0,0
Pink color names
pink#FFC0CB255,192,203
lightpink#FFB6C1255,182,193
hotpink#FF69B4255,105,180
deeppink#FF1493255,20,147
mediumvioletred#C71585199,21,133
palevioletred#DB7093219,112,147
Orange color names
lightsalmon#FFA07A255,160,122
coral#FF7F50255,127,80
tomato#FF6347255,99,71
orangered#FF4500255,69,0
darkorange#FF8C00255,140,0
orange#FFA500255,165,0
Yellow color names
gold#FFD700255,215,0
yellow#FFFF00255,255,0
lightyellow#FFFFE0255,255,224
lemonchiffon#FFFACD255,250,205
light goldenrodyellow#FAFAD2250,250,210
papayawhip#FFEFD5255,239,213
moccasin#FFE4B5255,228,181
peachpuff#FFDAB9255,218,185
palegoldenrod#EEE8AA238,232,170
khaki#F0E68C240,230,140
darkkhaki#BDB76B189,183,107
Purple color names
lavender#E6E6FA230,230,250
thistle#D8BFD8216,191,216
plum#DDA0DD221,160,221
violet#EE82EE238,130,238
orchid#DA70D6218,112,214
fuchsia#FF00FF255,0,255
magenta#FF00FF255,0,255
mediumorchid#BA55D3186,85,211
mediumpurple#9370DB147,112,219
blueviolet#8A2BE2138,43,226
darkviolet#9400D3148,0,211
darkorchid#9932CC153,50,204
darkmagenta#8B008B139,0,139
purple#800080128,0,128
indigo#4B008275,0,130
slateblue#6A5ACD106,90,205
darkslateblue#483D8B72,61,139
mediumslateblue#7B68EE123,104,238
Green color names
greenyellow#ADFF2F173,255,47
chartreuse#7FFF00127,255,0
lawngreen#7CFC00124,252,0
lime#00FF000,255,0
limegreen#32CD3250,205,50
palegreen#98FB98152,251,152
lightgreen#90EE90144,238,144
medium springgreen#00FA9A0,250,154
springgreen#00FF7F0,255,127
mediumseagreen#3CB37160,179,113
seagreen#2E8B5746,139,87
forestgreen#228B2234,139,34
green#0080000,128,0
darkgreen#0064000,100,0
yellowgreen#9ACD32154,205,50
olivedrab#6B8E23107,142,35
olive#808000128,128,0
darkolivegreen#556B2F85,107,47
medium aquamarine#66CDAA102,205,170
darkseagreen#8FBC8F143,188,143
lightseagreen#20B2AA32,178,170
darkcyan#008B8B0,139,139
teal#0080800,128,128
Blue color names
aqua#00FFFF0,255,255
cyan#00FFFF0,255,255
lightcyan#E0FFFF224,255,255
paleturquoise#AFEEEE175,238,238
aquamarine#7FFFD4127,255,212
turquoise#40E0D064,224,208
mediumturquoise#48D1CC72,209,204
darkturquoise#00CED10,206,209
cadetblue#5F9EA095,158,160
steelblue#4682B470,130,180
lightsteelblue#B0C4DE176,196,222
powderblue#B0E0E6176,224,230
lightblue#ADD8E6173,216,230
skyblue#87CEEB135,206,235
lightskyblue#87CEFA135,206,250
deepskyblue#00BFFF0,191,255
dodgerblue#1E90FF30,144,255
cornflowerblue#6495ED100,149,237
mediumslateblue#7B68EE123,104,238
royalblue#4169E165,105,225
blue#0000FF0,0,255
mediumblue#0000CD0,0,205
darkblue#00008B0,0,139
navy#0000800,0,128
midnightblue#19197025,25,112
Brown color names
cornsilk#FFF8DC255,248,220
blanchedalmond#FFEBCD255,235,205
bisque#FFE4C4255,228,196
navajowhite#FFDEAD255,222,173
wheat#F5DEB3245,222,179
burlywood#DEB887222,184,135
tan#D2B48C210,180,140
rosybrown#BC8F8F188,143,143
sandybrown#F4A460244,164,96
goldenrod#DAA520218,165,32
darkgoldenrod#B8860B184,134,11
peru#CD853F205,133,63
chocolate#D2691E210,105,30
saddlebrown#8B4513139,69,19
sienna#A0522D160,82,45
brown#A52A2A165,42,42
maroon#800000128,0,0
White color names
white#FFFFFF255,255,255
snow#FFFAFA255,250,250
honeydew#F0FFF0240,255,240
mintcream#F5FFFA245,255,250
azure#F0FFFF240,255,255
aliceblue#F0F8FF240,248,255
ghostwhite#F8F8FF248,248,255
whitesmoke#F5F5F5245,245,245
seashell#FFF5EE255,245,238
beige#F5F5DC245,245,220
oldlace#FDF5E6253,245,230
floralwhite#FFFAF0255,250,240
ivory#FFFFF0255,255,240
antiquewhite#FAEBD7250,235,215
linen#FAF0E6250,240,230
lavenderblush#FFF0F5255,240,245
mistyrose#FFE4E1255,228,225
Grey color names
gainsboro#DCDCDC220,220,220
lightgrey#D3D3D3211,211,211
silver#C0C0C0192,192,192
darkgray#A9A9A9169,169,169
gray#808080128,128,128
dimgray#696969105,105,105
lightslategray#778899119,136,153
slategray#708090112,128,144
darkslategray#2F4F4F47,79,79
black#0000000,0,0

About HTML colors

Web colors are colors used in displaying web pages on the World Wide Web, and the methods for describing and specifying those colors. Colors may be specified as an RGB triplet or in hexadecimal format (a hex triplet) or according to their common English names in some cases. A color tool or other graphics software is often used to generate color values. In some uses, hexadecimal color codes are specified with notation using a leading number sign (#). A color is specified according to the intensity of its red, green and blue components, each represented by eight bits. Thus, there are 24 bits used to specify a web color within the sRGB gamut, and 16,777,216 colors that may be so specified.

Colors outside the sRGB gamut can be specified in Cascading Style Sheets by making one or more of the red, green and blue components negative or greater than 100%, so the color space is theoretically an unbounded extrapolation of sRGB similar to scRGB. Specifying a non-sRGB color this way requires the RGB() function call; it is impossible with the hexadecimal syntax (and thus impossible in legacy HTML documents that do not use CSS).

The first versions of Mosaic and Netscape Navigator used the X11 color names as the basis for their color lists, as both started as X Window System applications. Web colors have an unambiguous colorimetric definition, sRGB, which relates the chromaticities of a particular phosphor set, a given transfer curve, adaptive whitepoint, and viewing conditions. These have been chosen to be similar to many real-world monitors and viewing conditions, in order to allow rendering to be fairly close to the specified values even without color management. User agents vary in the fidelity with which they represent the specified colors. More advanced user agents use color management to provide better color fidelity; this is particularly important for Web-to-print applications.