X Windows Colors

Netscape was originally (ver. 2) suppose to support the colors of the X-Windows system used on UNIX systems. This page is provided to allow you to see the actual colors for each of the color names. You should note, however, that my Netscape 4.79 version browser does NOT correctly display most of these. The specification I have is taken from O´Reilly´s ¨Webmaster In A Nutshell¨, pg 57. The rgb.txt file I am using is the /opt/sfw/share/emacs/20.7/etc/rgb.txt file from my UNIX workstation. (I actually found four such rgb.txt files, two in the X-Windows files and two emacs versions. They were all the same except for headers.)

Different browsers will handle different of these values differntly. I found that of the three browsers I tend to use (Netscape 4, IE 5, and Opera 6) that Opera displays by far the most of the values the same as the X-Windows RGB color. Opera displayed just 6 (grey, gray, green, maroon, purple, and LightPink) of the 657 colors differently, and four of those seem to just represent different default choices for basic colors (and I like their choice for green MUCH better!).

Note: Each entry is actually a small table showing the name and the RGB value both in black and in white text. The RGB value is in a separate cell in the table with the background set to the RGB value of the color. If it appears different than the rest of the cell, this means that your browser is displaying the color incorrectly, or with a different RGB value than that defined in my rgb.txt file. The color of the cell containing the RGB value is the correct color for that RGB value.