I'm curious; why are you replicating something that has already been done? There are many web sites out there which map colors to hex values for the web. Try a Google search for "web-safe color wheel hex". The first one that search returns is a neat little java applet which also shows you what it would look like on an actual page.

I was about to say "perhaps you wish to convert arbitrary decimal rbg values to hex rbg values and that's a different matter," but if this is for a CGI script, the output for colors not in the "web-safe" palette will vary from monitor to monitor. Thus, making arbitrary colors available is probably making much more work than is necessary for what you seem to have in mind.

In reply to Re: hex color generator by amelinda
in thread hex color generator by Anonymous Monk

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