In most design software, especially when designing for the internet, colours are defined with values of Red, Green and Blue, often just called RGB. So, a red colour will have a high value for R, and lower value for G and B.

A bright red might have Red, Green and Blue values of 255, 0 and 0 (all the values have to be between 0 and 255). Blue might be 0, 0 and 255. The values are often simplified to, for example, 255/0/0 for bright red.

Web sites, however, normally reference colours in strings of 6 letters and numbers (called Hex), like FF0000, for the same bright red as before. It's not easy to convert between the RGB and the Hex, but luckily there's a REALLY useful website that'll help you do it.

For example, the blue we use quite often on our website has the following RGB colour: 94/130/171. Using the colour converter website, I can find out that the Hex version of the colour is #5e82ab (Hex colours normally have a # at th efront of them).

Visit Draac's colour converter to have a go.

Converting colours