How do you read hexadecimal colors?

Question

I have difficulties in understanding Hexadecimal colors and the rgb (xxx,xxx,xxx) thing. There must be some easy way to understand these.

Someone enlighten me please.

Answer 1

Every hexadecimal value is expressed like this #RRGGBB where R stands for *red*, G for *green* amd B for *blue*. Now you can add values from A-F to 0-9...Every value determines the shade of each color...If it is close to F, the color is strong and vice-versa...
Eg: #FF0000 is red
#FF00FF stands for red+blue=violet and so on...

Answer 2

# RR GG BB

RR specifies the amount of red
GG the amount of green
BB the amount of blue

one unit e.g. for red ranges from 0 to F
i.e. it can be

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F

then

#FF0000

means red

#00FF00

means green

#00CC00

still green

you can also specify only 3 chars

#F00 means red
etc

now

all equal -> white

#FFF
#FFFFFF

all 0 -> black

#000000
#000

#666 -> grey