WELCOME TO THE INTERNATIONAL COLOR NAME REGISTRY

       The International Color Name Registry was created to serve as a database for the naming of all of the colors which may be created on today's computers. There are currently over 16 million possible colors which may be displayed on today's computer monitors and only a tiny fraction of them have been named. We hope the process of naming colors will be fun for the whole family. This website was created to enable anyone (who wishes to do so) to name a color and register it. This information will be copywrited.

     This site was also meant to be a place where anyone interested in color may go to learn more about it. We have provided links which explain the meaning of such terms as the hexadecimal code, the RGB code, HTML, non dithering colors, etc.

     We hope our website and our database of color names will be used by all entities which are involved in the various aspects of computer graphics such as web designers, graphics designers, artists, computer manufacturers, programmers, and software companies. There are currently less than a few hundred color names which may be used in place of the hexadecimal code when using HTML to design web pages. We hope our database of color names will be used by such entities to increase the number of names used in the HTML code. Names are easier to remember than numbers.

Also, there are currently some discrepancies in the literature regarding some of the names which are currently being used by web designers. For example, some hex codes have more than one name and some names have more than one hex code depending on which book you refer to. We will try to clear up some these discrepancies. Our database will be standardized. Each hex code will have only one name and every name in our database will be unique. We hope those in the web design and computer graphics field will work with us to provide names for every color as well. We encourage anyone who has a website to join our affiliate program so that you can start earning money as you help us achieve our goal.

Finally, if you own a website and would like to advertise, you may sponsor our color names or sign up for our affiliate program.

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