ABSTRACT
Color Control for Fonts As with size, color has many different units of measure. The
default for Web design is hexadecimal, a combination of six letters and numbers. CSS3 provides a much broader palette of colors to choose from that include:
• Color name-you can create names for colors such as brown, black, red, or even cyan
• Full hexadecimal-a hexadecimal value comprised of six alpha-numeric values
• Short hexadecimal-a hexadecimal value comprised of three alpha-numeric values
• RGB-a combination of red, green, and blue values • RGBA-a combination of red, green, and blue values with
a transparency value (alpha) • HSL-a combination of hue, saturation, and lightness • HSLA-a combination of hue, saturation, and lightness
with a transparency value (alpha) The following CSS uses these values to show you can create the
color red in several different ways.
