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Great online color wheel tool

March 6th, 2006 creative, technical

A hex triad is the way computers represent color. It uses the form #F56B2A, but what does it mean in human terms? To start, we need to talk about counting. With our normal decimal system (based on 10) you can count from 0 to 9 in one digit but hexidecimal (based on 16) is a more computerish way of counting. Hex goes from 0 to 15, using letters A-F for 10 through 15. As you probably know, computers (and TV’s for that matter) break color into components of red, green, and blue. Modern computers can display each of these color components on a scale from 0 to 255 (16^2), or more simply, from 00 to FF in hex. Thus a hex triad is a set of three pairs of hex digits from 000000 to FFFFFF and can represent just over 16 million (16^6) combinations of red, green, and blue. All this to say, you can find the hex values of all kinds of color schemes monochromatic, complementary, and other using this great online tool.