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The W3C has defined only 16 HTML / CSS color names: aqua, black, blue, fuchsia, gray, green, lime, maroon, navy, olive, purple, red, silver, teal, white, and yellow. All of these color have simple names, and we're going to access them in the below tables by their names, not by a hex value.
Also check out my article Knol Color Test : What are my Choices? where I show many other colors that have wide browser support even though not defined by the W3C.
Here is a snippet from the code which does what I'm doing below:
<table bgcolor=aqua><tr>
<td style="color: blue; text-align: center;">blue</td>
<td style="color: fuchsia; text-align: center;">fuchsia</td>
</tr></table>
Color is the color of the text, while bgcolor is the color of the background of the table cell. Just copy these examples and choose whatever color you want. The same colors that are used in the background, can also be used for the text itself. I could have done that here, but it's easier to see the color if you have a large area of color, so I chose to make the entire box that color, so you could see it.
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Aqua Background
| black | blue | fuchsia | gray | green |
| lime | maroon | navy | olive | purple |
| red | silver | teal | white | yellow |
Black Background
| aqua | blue | fuchsia | gray | green |
| lime | maroon | navy | olive | purple |
| red | silver | teal | white | yellow |
Blue Background
| aqua | black | fuchsia | gray | green |
| lime | maroon | navy | olive | purple |
| red | silver | teal | white | yellow |
Fuchsia Background
| aqua | blue | black | gray | green |
| lime | maroon | navy | olive | purple |
| red | silver | teal | white | yellow |
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Gray Background
| aqua | blue | black | fuchsia | green |
| lime | maroon | navy | olive | purple |
| red | silver | teal | white | yellow |
Green Background
| aqua | blue | black | fuchsia | gray |
| lime | maroon | navy | olive | purple |
| red | silver | teal | white | yellow |
Lime Background
| aqua | blue | black | fuchsia | gray |
| green | maroon | navy | olive | purple |
| red | silver | teal | white | yellow |
Maroon Background
| aqua | blue | black | fuchsia | gray |
| green | lime | navy | olive | purple |
| red | silver | teal | white | yellow |
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Navy Background
| aqua | blue | black | fuchsia | gray |
| green | lime | maroon | olive | purple |
| red | silver | teal | white | yellow |
Olive Background
| aqua | blue | black | fuchsia | gray |
| green | lime | maroon | navy | purple |
| red | silver | teal | white | yellow |
Purple Background
| aqua | blue | black | fuchsia | gray |
| green | lime | maroon | navy | olive |
| red | silver | teal | white | yellow |
Red Background
| aqua | blue | black | fuchsia | gray |
| green | lime | maroon | navy | olive |
| purple | silver | teal | white | yellow |
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Silver Background
| aqua | blue | black | fuchsia | gray |
| green | lime | maroon | navy | olive |
| purple | red | teal | white | yellow |
Teal Background
| aqua | blue | black | fuchsia | gray |
| green | lime | maroon | navy | olive |
| purple | red | silver | white | yellow |
White Background
| aqua | blue | black | fuchsia | gray |
| green | lime | maroon | navy | olive |
| purple | red | silver | teal | yellow |
Yellow Background
| aqua | blue | black | fuchsia | gray |
| green | lime | maroon | navy | olive |
| purple | red | silver | teal | white |
Which combinations
Which combinations above do you think are pretty? Which are hideous? From each table I like black on aqua, while lime is unreadable. Lime on black is kinda neat, while navy disappears. With the blue background, most of them are awful, fuchsia is sort-of interesting. In the fuchsia table, black is nice, red and silver are unreadable.
Anonymous - 25 Feb 2010In the grey table I like aqua, lime and red, while olive and teal are the worst. In the green table, teal, olive and gray can't be read; white, lime or yellow are the best choices. In the lime table, maroon or purple are interesting, while aqua, white and yellow are awful. In the maroon table, yellow looks to be the best; purple and olive are bad.
In the navy table, several look decent - aqua, red, lime, fuchsia and yellow are all possible good choices, while black, purple, green and teal are bad. In the olive table, yellow, white, lime are good; gray is unreadable, green and teal are bad. In the purple table, yellow or fuchsia are the best, while maroon and teal are the worst. In the red table, several good possibilities, the best probably blue, navy and yellow; the worst fuchsia, aqua and silver.
In the silver table, I like yellow, white, purple and maroon; while aqua and lime are the worst. In the teal background, aqua, white and yellow look interesting while gray, olive and green are unreadable. In the white table, black and navy are the best, while yellow is unreadable and silver is bad. In the yellow table, I like purple, blue and teal, while white is unreadable while lime and aqua are bad.