[CS1] Colors

When specifying a color you can use various forms. You can also use  template variables to insert colors from your data sets.

NOTE: Colors are not case sensitive regardless of what form they take.

Hex Colors

A hexadecimal color takes the form of #RRGGBB, where the # is a literal #, RR is a 2 digit hexadecimal number representing red, GG is a 2 digit hexadecimal number representing green, and BB is a 2 digit hexadecimal number representing blue. For example: #FFFFFF, would be white, where #000000 would be black. And #0000FF would be bright blue, where #000080 would be navy blue, and #DDDDFF would be pastel blue. 

Hex Alpha Colors

Hex alpha colors are just like Hex Colors except that there is an alpha channel appended to the end. They therefore take the form of #RRGGBBAA. The alpha channel is a hexadecimal number representing how transparent the color is starting with FF as fully opaque and 00 being fully transparent. So #000000FF would be fully black, where #000000aa would be black, but be partially transparent, and #00000000 would technically be black, but since it's fully transparent it doesn't matter what color it is. Effectively #00000000 and #FFFFFF00 are the same color, because they are both fully transparent. 

Named Colors

You can also use named colors instead of these hex values if you prefer your color names to be human readable. Here are the list of named colors: