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Choosing Colors The actual color scheme selected for a web page is arbitrary but the color combinations are not. The contrast between colors is more important than the individual color.
At least four colors must be chosen to complete a web page color scheme:
  1. Background color
  2. Document text
  3. Links
  4. Visited Links
Fig 1. Sample Color Schemes
blueviolet background
yellow text
gold links
antiquewhite visited links
 indigo background
khaki text
yellow links
goldenrod visited links
magenta background
white text
black links
darkblue visited links
 white background
black text
blue links
darkred visited links

Once a color scheme has been chosen then graphic images that will complement the scheme can be selected. Shown below is the HTML code used to set the colors for this page:

<BODY BGCOLOR="WHITE" TEXT="BLACK" LINK="BLUE" VLINK="DARKRED">