CSS Colors Tutorial for Beginners

Web Dev Roadmap for Beginners (Free!): https://bit.ly/DaveGrayWebDevRoadmap 🔗In this CSS colors tutorial for beginners you will learn how to set a background color and how to set a text color. We will explore rgb, rgba, hex, and hsl color values along with HTML color names. 🚩 Subscribe ➜ https://bit.ly/3nGHmNn 🚀 This lesson is part of a CSS for Beginners tutorial series playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0Zuz27SZ-6Mx9fd9elt80G1bPcySmWit 🔗 All Resources for this CSS Tutorial Series: https://github.com/gitdagray/css_course 📬 Course Updates ➜ https://courses.davegray.codes/ CSS Colors Tutorial for Beginners (00:00) Intro (00:05) Welcome (00:25) Setup (01:10) How to set a background color with CSS (02:57) How to set text color with CSS (03:46) rgb color values (04:46) Alpha channel - rgba (05:53) hex color values (08:59) VS Code Color Picker (10:30) hsl color values (12:52) The color value choice is yours (13:38) Color contrast checkers and palette generators ⚙ Web Dev Tools: 🔗 Chrome Browser: https://www.google.com/chrome/ 🔗 Visual Studio Code (VS Code): https://code.visualstudio.com/ 🔗 Live Server VS Code Extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ritwickdey.LiveServer 🔗 vscode-icons VS Code Extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vscode-icons-team.vscode-icons 🔗 Github Themes VS Code Extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GitHub.github-vscode-theme 🔗 W3C CSS Validator: https://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ 🔗 Specificity Calculator: https://specificity.keegan.st/ 📚 References: 🔗 MDN CSS: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS 🔗 MDN CSS Basics: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Getting_started_with_the_web/CSS_basics 🔗 MDN CSS Selectors: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/Building_blocks/Selectors 🔗 MDN - How to Apply Colors to HTML Elements with CSS: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/color 📚 Color Resources: 🔗 Coolors Contrast Checker: https://coolors.co/contrast-checker/112a46-acc8e5 🔗 WebAIM Contrast Checker: https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/ 🔗 Coolors Palette Generator: https://coolors.co/ 🔗 HTML Color Codes: https://htmlcolorcodes.com/ ✅ Follow Me: Github: https://github.com/gitdagray Twitter: https://twitter.com/yesdavidgray LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidagray/ Blog: https://yesdavidgray.com Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/DaveOnEleven Was this tutorial about CSS Colors for beginners helpful? If so, please share. Let me know your thoughts in the comments. #css #colors #tutorial