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Example of an RGBA image composited over a checkerboard background. alpha is 0% at the top and 100% at the bottom. RGBA stands for red green blue alpha.While it is sometimes described as a color space, it is actually a three-channel RGB color model supplemented with a fourth alpha channel.
For each unique palette, an image color test chart and sample image (truecolor original follows) rendered with that palette (without dithering) are given. The test chart shows the full 256 levels of the red, green, and blue (RGB) primary colors and cyan, magenta, and yellow complementary colors, along with a full 256-level grayscale.
The typical range of intensity values for each color, 0–255, is based on taking a binary number with 32 bits and breaking it up into four bytes of 8 bits each. 8 bits can hold a value from 0 to 255. The fourth byte is used to specify the "alpha", or the opacity, of the color. Opacity comes into play when layers with different colors are stacked.
The Cascading Style Sheets specification defines the same number of named colors as the HTML 4 spec, namely the 16 HTML colors, and 124 colors from the Netscape X11 color list for a total of 140 names that were recognized by Internet Explorer (IE) 3.0 and Netscape Navigator 3.0. [13]
With the predominance of 24-bit displays, the use of the full 16.7 million colors of the HTML RGB color code no longer poses problems for most viewers. The sRGB color space (a device-independent color space [ 23 ] ) for HTML was formally adopted as an Internet standard in HTML 3.2, [ 24 ] [ 25 ] though it had been in use for some time before that.
To use a colour in a template or table you can use the hex triplet (e.g. #CD7F32 is bronze) or HTML color name (e.g. red).. Editors are encouraged to make use of tools, such as Color Brewer 2 to create Brewer palettes, listed at MOS:COLOR for color scheme selection used in graphical charts, maps, tables, and webpages with accessibility in mind for color-blind and visually impaired users.
It is able to store a wider range of color values than sRGB. The Wide Gamut color space is an expanded version of the Adobe RGB color space, developed in 1998. As a comparison, the Adobe Wide Gamut RGB color space encompasses 77.6% of the visible colors specified by the Lab color space, whilst the standard Adobe RGB color space covers just 50.6%.
Web colors provides a list of colors which can be used. Simple colors, like black, blue, red, green, etc. can just be spelled out. Alternatively, colors can be specified using either RGB or hex notation.