The modern Internet uses 16-BIT color. With 256 possibilities for each of the three primary colors — red, green, and blue — that equals 16,777,216 colors. That’s a big box of crayons. Fortunately, computers make it easy to pick a color. This week’s free Hype template not only lets you pick a web color, it shows how to build a color select interface.
By moving a slider, one for each of the primary colors, the background color changes. Additionally, the displayed data for that color also changes. At the top is the RGB values, while at the bottom is the web hexadecimal value. The first two characters represent the red channel, the next two characters represent the green channel, and the last two characters represent the blue channel.
For more information about the “Lightbox” template, see the “Coloring” chapter in A Book About Hype.
You can also download the Lightbox Template to see how it works.