What color

Biz · Post by **Biz** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 11:15 pm

I have a macro that someone game me and it doe snot work just right so i want to fix it. But I don't know what the color for this number 14614527. Is there a site that can tell me what that color looks like?

Monkster · Post by **Monkster** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 4:13 am

You can go to http://www.1728.com/colrchr3.htm and adjust the RBG values provided below to see the color - it's a kind of flat light yellow. Personally I use ColorImpact from tigercolor.com for all of my coloring needs.

R: 255
B: 255
G: 222

Hex FFFFDE

H: 60Ã‚Â°
S: 13%
B: 100%

L: 99
A: -4
B: 16

C: 1%
M: 0%
Y: 16%
K: 0%

Lumumba · Post by **Lumumba** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 8:37 am

Thx that you've shared 1728 with us

Biz · Post by **Biz** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 3:49 pm

I am still new to this and not sure what to do. On the 1st site you gave where do i put this number 14614527?

Biz · Post by **Biz** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 7:41 pm

I guess no one knows?

Bob Hansen · Post by **Bob Hansen** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 9:22 pm

You can probably do most of your color comparsons using the Hex value FFFFDE. But you need to go through some conversions. First from Decimal to Hex, then from BGR to RGB.

1. 14614527 is the decimal value for the color.
Convert the decimal value to a HEX value. = DEFFFF

2. Break this into three groups for R/G/B. But Microsoft uses B/G/R values vs. R/G/B, so you must change from BGR to RGB. resulting in:
RGB = FF / FF / DE components or
RGB = FFFFDE Hex value.
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To get to the RGB component values, more steps are needed

Now convert each of these back to decimals:
RGB, FF/FF/DE = 255/255/222, resulting in:
Red = 255
Green = 255
Blue = 222

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Summary:
Decimal all components = 14614527
BGR Hex = DEFFFF
RGB Hex = FFFFDE
Microsoft BGR Decimal for each component = 222,255,255
RGB Decimal each component = 255,255,222

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Nov 24, 2004 9:26 pm

Sorry, my first post was not accurate you do not enter RGB values. You need to roll your mouse over the hex value FFFFDE

Go to the site listed above.
On the first 'input' line touch (with your mouse cursor) the letter F
2nd line touch F
3rd line touch F
4th line touch F
5th line touch D
6th line touch E

That will display your color.
Hope that clears things up!

wolf1728 · Post by **wolf1728** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 6:11 pm

Well, I'm glad my site came in handy for you folks. Maybe I should include an output box for showing the decimal number in full.
wolf

Monkster · Post by **Monkster** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 8:07 pm

That would be an excellent addition to your site! I zero'd in on the decimal color using the program (one free plug's my limit) listed above and then found your site via Google. Wish I could remember what my exact search phrase was but it hit right near the top

Bob Hansen · Post by **Bob Hansen** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 8:28 pm

Thanks wolf1728.

I agree, having the decimal values there would be a big plus.
Especially to eliminate changing between RGB and BGR for Microsoft.

wolf1728 · Post by **wolf1728** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 10:51 pm

What is the terminolosy for the decimal number ?
I know what Hex # means and I always thought that the decimal number was a grouping of 3 decimal numbers in RGB order.
(RRR GGG BBB)

So, what exactly is the actual decimal value for a color called?
Incidentally, I have never seen the need for a true decimal color value for website colors. Still, somebody must need it.

Also, the values that Monkster posted (H: S: B: and L: A: B:, etc) - are those values used by a lot of people?
Are there any tutorials that explain color values other than HEX and Decimal vaues? (By that I mean other than the RRR GGG BBB decimal values)

Bob Hansen · Post by **Bob Hansen** » Sat Nov 27, 2004 11:59 pm

Need to convert HEX color value to a decimal using normal conversion calculators. In the sample above DEFFFF converts to 14614527.

But the question is going to be what colors are represented as decimals.
Microsoft returns values in alphabetical order, BGR, vs. the normal RGB. So you must first change any R/G/B value into B/G/R value first, then convert that complete Hex value DEFFFF into the decimal value 14614527..

The DEFFFF is actually BGR values vs. RGB values FFFFDE.

See samples here: http://www.planning.org/lbcs/standards/colorcodes.htm But note the values are all RGB. You could provide both decimal values, RGB for normal usage and BGR for Microsoft usage.

(Edited url liink to remove trailing period which caused the link to fail).

wolf1728 · Post by **wolf1728** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 4:22 am

Hi Bob,
That link doesn't work. That site is for land based classification systems and yet it has the standards for website colors? Very strange. Anyway, I have enough information to work out the actual decimal color numbers.

Bob Hansen · Post by **Bob Hansen** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 5:03 am

Just to let you know I have corrected the link. There was a trailing period which I removed.

Yes, that site was land-based colors, but it was dealing with colors as they are used on Maps. I suspect that was for Web page support for Map coloring. But I only wanted to show you a site that did display the decimal versions of colors. I have not see one yet that displays the Windows VB or BRG decimal values.

Glad you have the info you needed. Good luck if you take on this project.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Nov 29, 2004 4:25 am

I have a crude version of the program at:
http://www.1728.com/colrchr4.htm
ONLY the 3rd input box works (the one that has a 255 in it).
Clear that box, enter a decimal number and then click on that particular ENTER box.
I have more to do, but I think the decimal to hex and RGB conversion was the toughest. I will work more on it.