Keyboard Shortcuts to Pick Colors

Last week I blogged about Keyboard Shortcuts for Punctuation Marks and Symbols.

This week I’m giving you Keyboard Shortcuts for Colors.

You can use select a text color by typing in the color code on newsletter providers like MailerLite, on your own websites, blogs, and on graphics websites like BookBrush, etc.

These HTML color names can be used with inline HTML styles or in a separate CSS stylesheet 

For example, you can change the color of a headline and/or the body text with a simple HTML code instruction like this:

Indian Red Title Text

Slate gray paragraph text

I use color codes a lot because it’s faster to type 6 characters than click on a color chart and find the one yu want to use.

You may know already that #000000 is the HTML color code for black, and that #FFFFFF is the HTML color code for white.

There are HTML Color Codes for every color of the rainbow. Here are a few commonly used color codes in a list you can copy and print.

HTML COLOR CODES

Black  —  #000000

White  —  #FFFFFF

Bright Red  —  #FF0000

Bright Pink  —  #FF1493

Medium Violet Red  —  #C71585

Magenta  —  #FF00FF

Orange  —  #FFA500

Gold  —  #FFD700

Bright Yellow  —  #FFFF00

Lime Green  —  #00FF00

Green  —  #008000

Teal  —  #008080

Blue  —  #0000FF

Navy  —  #000080

Beige  — #F5F5DC 

Chocolate  —  #D2691E

Brown  —  #A52A2A

Maroon  —  #800000

Gray  —  #808080

TAKEAWAY TRUTH

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