Wikipedia:Colors

Colors are most commonly found in Wikipedia articles within templates and tables.

If you are looking for a colour, see:
 * Web colors
 * List of colors

To use a color in a template or table you can use the hex triplet. Example: bronze is #CD7F32.

Alternatively, some common colours can be referred to by name (HTML 4 colours). Orange is also included. Example:

Wikipedia
Wikipedia uses this colour scheme on its Main Page.
 * Please note that the colour for the border on the lighter boxes is also the colour of the backgrounds of the darker (title) boxes.

And additionally on the Community Portal and Wikisource Main Page:

Additional 3-colour palettes using this same generation scheme are at the top of the talk page.

Commons
The Wikimedia Commons uses this colour scheme on commons:Main Page and commons:Help:Contents.

Basic explanation of hex triplets
A hex triplet is a six-digit, three-byte hexadecimal number used in HTML and CSS, and other computing applications, to represent colors. The bytes represent the red, green and blue components of the color. One byte represents a number in the range 00 to FF (in hexadecimal notation), or 0 to 255 in decimal notation. This represents the least (0) to the most (255) intensity of each of the color components. The hex triplet is formed by concatenating three bytes in hexadecimal notation, in the following order:
 * Byte 1: red value
 * Byte 2: green value
 * Byte 3: blue value

For example, consider the color where the red/green/blue values are decimal numbers: red=36, green=104, blue=160 (a greyish-blue color). The decimal numbers 36, 104 and 160 are 24, 68 and A0 respectively in hexadecimal notation. To obtain the hex triplet, we simply write the three hex bytes together without spaces, thus: 2468A0. If a byte is less than 16 (decimal) or 10 (hex) it must be represented with a leading zero to keep the number of digits in the triplet equal to six. For example, the decimal triplet 0,1,2 would be represented by the hex triplet 000102.

To make a word have color, use:  with this code the first two numbers are how much red there is, the next two are green and the next two are blue. To get the lowest amount of a color use 0 the next amount is not 2, but 3 then 6 then 9 then "c" stands as 12, the "f" stands as 15. Examples: ,   ,   ,   ,   ,   ,.

Examples

 * Community Portal
 * Template:Reference page header
 * HD header
 * Hinduism footer small
 * Infoboxes on year pages: 1822
 * Many userboxes use colour

Note. If a page layout has two or more backgrounds with no spacing between their borders, e.g., the Community Portal, use the darkest border that applies.