Color Background - 11 selected colors

There are too many colors to choose from for background. I use only eleven of them. Colors one to five provide very good readability. Use sparingly the others, for they are too bright as background. The general format of the background color tag is:

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#5500EE" vlink="#FF0100" alink="#551A8B">

Color	bgcolor	text	link	vlink	alink
01	FFFFFF	000000	5500EE	FF0100	EDEDD8
02	FFFFFA	000000	5500EE	FF0100	551A8B
03	EDEDD8	000000	5500EE	FF0100	551A8B
04	FFCC66	000000	5500EE	FF0100	551A8B
05	FFCC33	000000	5500EE	FF0100	551A8B
06	FF9966	000000	5500FF	FF0100	551A8B
07	66CCFF	000000	5500EE	FF0100	551A8B
08	57FFF0	000000	5500EE	FF0100	551A8B
09	0000EE	FFFFFF	FF0000	FFFF00	551A8B
10	FFCCCC	000000	5500EE	FF0100	551A8B
11	FF0000	FFFFFF	5500EE	FF0100	551A8B

You can also:

find more Background Colors here if you do not like my selection.
use a background paper (image) to be sure the color you select will be seen in different machines/color schemas. Use a tag like: <body background="bri-gol-yellow.gif"> , where bri-gol-yellow.gif is an image of a color, or any other image you like to have as a background. You can select very good background papers from Backgrounds in Yahoo.
Note: if you right-click in the colors of the above table, you can save a gif corresponding to each color.

This page is maintained by Al Bento who can be reached at abento@ubmail.ubalt.edu. This page was last updated on February 12, 2002. Although we will attempt to keep this information accurate, we can not guarantee the accuracy of the information provided.