16 Bit Color Codes Math

Hexadecimal hex more condensed notation.

16 bit color codes math. This note will be based on that note and you will be able to generate any color within 16 bit color depth by using the color picker below. 16 bit color generator rgb565 color picker one of the previous notes was about 16 bits rgb color representation rgb565 format. Your key takeaways in this episode are. We need to compute larger numbers.

Working in binary and octal is mind numbing. These 256 colors are represented as the values 0 255. So one hexadecimal digit can have 16 different values 0 to 15 in decimal and two hexadecimal digits together called a byte can make 16 16 256 different levels of color. The first number is 0 and you count all the way up to the last digit.

Each color s rgb hexadecimal code is shown as well as its rgb decimal code rgb percent code hsl hue saturation light code and the cmyk code for comparison cmyk is not used in html or css. Bam welcome the hexadecimal or hex notation which you use every day for css color codes. Let s talk about the age of 16 bit and new numbering system. This page shows a table of the sixteen colors with swatches defined by the hexadecimal code and sorted by hue saturation and light.

Hexadecimal numbers are natural to computers because computers store and handle binary digits and four binary digits make one hexadecimal digit see binary digits.