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A hex triplet is a six-digit (or eight-digit), three-byte (or four-byte) hexadecimal number used in HTML, CSS, SVG, and other computing applications to represent colors.The bytes represent the red, green, and blue components of the color.
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.
A second parameter of a number between 0 and 100 optionally specifies opacity. Unexpectedly 0 and 100 both indicate 100%, so 1 will be the least opaque value, getting progressively denser up to 100%. Alternatively, full control over the opacity of any color can be made by adding two further hex digits to any six-hexadecimal-digit colour.
To use a colour in a template or table you can use the hex triplet (e.g. bronze is #CD7F32) or HTML color names (e.g. red). Editors are encouraged to make use of Brewer palettes for charts, maps, and other entities, using this tool .
The Printer Working Group (PWG) of the IEEE publishes a standard, PWG 5101.1, whose mandatory color names are based upon RFC 3805, successor to RFC 1759 which imported the functional color names other, unknown and transparent alongside seven basic colors from ISO 10175 and ISO 10180 , and JTAPI. [18]
The HSV (hue, saturation, value) color space values, also known as HSB (hue, saturation, brightness), and the hex triplets (for HTML web colors) are also given in the following table. Some environments (like Microsoft Excel ) reverse the order of bytes in hex color values (i.e. to "BGR").
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.
One color entry in a single GIF or PNG image's palette can be defined as "transparent" rather than an actual color. This means that when the decoder encounters a pixel with this value, it is rendered in the background color of the part of the screen where the image is placed, also if this varies pixel-by-pixel as in the case of a background image.