Help:Named Colour Chart

Use of colours on Lotro-Wiki

Here at Lotro-Wiki, the preferred technique for the use of colour is to use "NAMED Colours."

While not necessarily encompassing "artistic expression," "Named Colours" allow one to predict what a given colour will look like when displayed in any browser.

"Named Colours" are standards. They also allow any editor to instantly determine what colour was intended.

You will find both numerical representations and Named Colours used in various parts of the Wiki. Most all numerical representations are artifacts from an earlier time.

Templates available

To insert coloured text use the {{Color}} template:

{{Color|red|example}} 

Which produces this: example

Named Colour Chart

The names in this table can be used in all major browsers instead of the hex code or rgb(r, g, b) notations to more easily document your colour use.

• Lotro-Wiki Standard colours are defined in MediaWiki: Common.css and MediaWiki: Common.js

• WikiTable

Background: transparent/Lettering: Black/Good Link: Blue/Bogus Link: Red

• Dark Table:

Background: White/Lettering: Black/Good Link: Blue/Bogus Link: Red

Favorite references

• The "official" 147 HTML/CSS colour codes
• CSS Color Module Level 3

• a continuous shading chart
• good old VisiBone
• X11 colours and a RGB converter
• The "official" 147 HTML/CSS colour codes
• CSS Color Module Level 3

The web safe colour palette contains 216 colours. Back when most computers only had 8-bit video cards, they could only view 256 colours. Out of those 256 colours, 40 of them looked different between Macs and PCs. The reason that the web safe colour palette only has 216 colours is because of those 40 colours. Limiting the palette to 216 ensures that both Macs and PCs display all colours the same.

The names in this table can be used in all major browsers instead of the hex code or #rgb(r, g, b) notations to more easily document your colour use.

NOTE: {{Color|red|example}} and {{TextColor|Text|orange}} have the ''COLOR'' arguments reversed!

Colours used to indicate Quality Quality White Common Yellow Uncommon Purple Rare Cyan Incomparable Orange Epic		Colours used to indicate Level (Relative to yourself) Grey 9 or more levels below Green 6-8 levels below Turquoise 3-5 levels below Blue 1-2 levels below White Same level as yourself Yellow 1 level above Orange 2-4 levels above Red 5-7 levels above Purple 8 levels above

* Lotro-Wiki Standard Colours as used in tables MediaWiki:Common.css name Colour Name / Hex Value Colour Table Name (.css) Table name: stocktable (default) and altRows table.altRowsMed th table.stocktable th #BBBBFF Header table.altRowsMed tr.even #EEEEFF altRows table.altRows tr.odd white altRows #E4D8FF un-named colour Table name: altRowsMP table.altRowsMP th Orange altRowsMP table.altRowsMP a:link lightgreen a:link table.altRowsMP a:visited limegreen a:visited table.altRowsMP a:hover cyan a:hover Table name: mptable MP table.mptable td moccasin mptable ?MP? #cabba2 ???? #000099 div.itemtooltip li.darkorchid darkorchid #9932CC div.itemtooltip li.darkorchid div.itemtooltip li.setbonus #999 div.itemtooltip li.setbonus test box2 #999999 test box3 #090909

* Colours I'm always using: My Colour Chart Classic browser safe colours Colour Name Hex Value Colour NavajoWhite #FFDEAD Red #FF0000 Lime #00FF00 Blue #0000FF Yellow #FFFF00 Cyan (Aqua) #00FFFF Magenta (Fuchsia) #FF00FF Silver #COCOCO Grey #808080 Green #008000 Purple #800080 Teal #008080 Other commonly supported colours Colour Name Hex Value Colour Gold #FFD700 Goldenrod #DAA520 Orange #FFA500 Pink #FFC0CB SkyBlue #87CEEB SlateBlue #6A5ACD SlateGray #708090

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Tools for Editors

Lotro-Wiki Manual of Style Creating Images and Icons for upload Extended Image Syntax How to use the Article Creation section Naming issues Categorization guidelines Documentation: HTML Color Codes Documentation: Quality - Colors used by LOTRO to designate Item Quality Advanced Editing Links Help -- links to editing information on this Wiki; a direct link to the Help page can be found in the side-menu. Basic Editing Information Advanced Editing I: Definitions and pointers Advanced Editing II: Techniques Technique: How to create Citations Technique: Disambiguation - Other pages with the same name but different content Advanced Editing III: CSS and Tables Documentation: Category Tree Extension on Mediawiki Editing Guidelines Creating Crafting pages Creating Item pages Creating Quest pages Creating Creature pages Creating NPC pages Standard Operating Procedures for Editors Category: Things to do Patrolling Wiki Statistics -- Statistics about the Wiki, page counts and the like Contribution Scores - Statistics about the editing in the past 30 days Projects Projects are also itemized in Help Editor: Information. Major Lotro-Wiki Projects Categorization • Character • Crafting • Creatures • Deeds • Documentation • Effects • Game Guides • Images • Instances • Lore • LOTRO Store • Monster Play • NPCs • Quests • Skirmishes • System Tools • World Expansion projects: Mordor Using Article Management Tags Category:Article Management Tags Category:Stubs

Using colour on a page

• A detailed discussion of the use of colour on Lotro-Wiki is found at: Help: Named Colour Chart