Colors in Java

For tthe first cits1001 project you can use the built in Java colours which are defined in java.awt.Color. Here are a few examples. Look up the rest in the Java library documentation.

  import java.awt.Color
  
  Pen pen = new Pen();
  pen.setColor( Color.RED );
  pen.setColor( Color.GREEN );
  pen.setColor( Color.BLUE);
  pen.setColor( Color.BLACK );

However, you may wish to create some more colours. You can do this using the RGB constructor, as shown below. Or if interested, you may also wish to research other colour models such as HSBColor.

Here is a selection of useful RGB colours.

Create a new colour by diving its red, green, blue components:

  import java.awt.Color;
  public static final Color VERY_LIGHT_RED = new Color(255,102,102);

	Color	RGB Value	Swatch

	Very light red	255-102-102
	Light red	255- 51- 51
	Red	255- 0 - 0
	Dark red	204- 0 - 0
	Very dark red	153- 0 - 0

	Very light blue	51-204-255
	Light blue	51-153-255
	Blue	0 - 0 -255
	Dark blue	0 - 0 -204
	Very dark blue	0 - 0 -153

	Very light green	102-255-102
	Light green	0 -255- 51
	Green	0 -204- 0
	Dark green	0 -153- 0
	Very dark green	0 -102- 0

	Very light yellow	255-255-204
	Light yellow	255-255-153
	Yellow	255-255- 0
	Dark yellow	255-204- 0

	Light orange	255-153- 0
	Orange	255-102- 0

	Gold	255-204- 51

	Light grey	204-204-204
	Grey	153-153-153
	Dark grey	102-102-102
	Very dark grey	51- 51- 51

	Light brown	153-102- 0
	Brown	102- 51- 0
	Dark brown	51- 0 - 0

	Purple	102- 0 -153

	Black	0 - 0 - 0

	White	255-255-255